Ozone Discourses: Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation

by Karen T. Litfin

Book Overview

How can scientific knowledge be translated into political change? Ozone Discourse examines the first global environment treaty, the Montreal Protocol and its subsequent revisions, which was a highly effective collaboration among scientists, policymakers and activists.

The treaties were the work of a small group of experts who, without conventional political or economic resources, were able to persuade most of the world's nations to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231081375
• ISBN13: 9780231081375
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Science and Politics

Ms. Litfun does an outstanding work in pointing to nexus of science and international politics in her book Ozone Discourses. While this book is not for the casual reader, it is an interesting and enlightening book for any person interested in domestic and international environmental policy development and, more specifically, the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depletion. This author provides an exceedingly well-informed review of science in world politics and the power of science in agenda-setting policy formation and implementation as it relates to the ozone. While the work does focus on the ozone depletion science and how the knowledge brokers (scientists) influence policy decisions on ozone, any person seeking to become better grounded in global climate change politics and policy, must add it to the library. Interesting 200-page read.