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This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment.Its arguments about how this success was achieved are both theoretically novel and of great significance for the management of other global problems, particularly global climate change. The book provides an account of the ozone-depletion issues from the first attempts to develop international action in the 1970s to the mature functioning of the present international regime.It examines the parallel developments of politics and negotiations, scientific understanding and controversy, technological progress, and industry strategy that shaped the issue's development and its effective management. In addition, the book offers important new insights into how the interactions among these domains influenced the formation and adaptation of the ozone regime.Addressing the initial formation of the regime, the book argues that authoritative scientific assessments were crucial in constraining policy debates and shaping negotiated agreements.Assessments gave scientific claims an ability to change policy actors' behavior that the claims themselves, however well known and verified, lacked. Concerning subsequent adaptation of the regime, the book identifies a series of feedbacks between the periodic revision of chemical controls and the strategic responses of affected industries, which drove rapid application of new approaches to reduce ozone-depleting chemicals.These feedbacks, promoted by the regime's novel technology assessment process, allowed worldwide use of the chemicals to decline further and faster than even the boldest predictions, by nearly 95 percent within ten years. ... Read more

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In the 1970s the world became aware of a huge danger: the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer by CFCs escaping into the atmosphere and the damage this could do to human health and the food chain. So great was the threat that by 1987 the UN had succeeded in coordinating an international treaty to phase out emissions, which over the following 15 years has been implemented. It has been hailed as an outstanding success. It needed the participation of all the parties: governments, industry, scientists, campaigners, NGOs, and the media, and it is a model for future treaties. This volume provides the authoritative and comprehensive history of the whole process from the earliest warning signs to the present. It is an invaluable record for all those involved and a necessary reference for future negotiations to a wide range of scholars, students, and professionals. ... Read more

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EXCELLENT book for understanding Montreal Protocol
This book providers the reader with wonderful insights to the development and the Montreal Protocol and amendments. It is a carefully crafted and detailed book for those seeking to learn how this dynamic international environmntal regime was developed and operates today. For any reader interested in knowing how a successful international environmental treaty can be made to work, this is the book. I highly recommend it for any student of environmental or international law. The book is especially ensightful as to how science is a driver for international climate policy. The book may also serve as a primer to the onging nexus of ozone depletion and climate change politics and science.

Student of Climate Change
As a student that is focusing my career on the issue of climate change, I found this book on ozone layer protection to be an extremely valuable resource.This book holds the general formula for how to deal with all global environmental concerns.Andersen and Sarma chronicle the way the world realized, rallied, fought, and in the end cooperated to save the world from impending disaster.The layout of the book makes it extremely accessible for focused readers- it designates chapters to tell the contributions of scientists, diplomats, businesspeople and engineers, media, and NGOs.The authors were deeply involved with all of these groups, enabling them to tell the inside story in each of these chapters.Their lessons are punctuated by exciting stories written by integral players in each of their fields.The reader will undoubtedly learn much by reading the chapter that relates most closely to him, and when he reads the entire book he'll find a story that is astonishing and inspiring.In asking Andersen and Sarma to write this book, the United Nations Environment Programme entrusted the right authors to portray their most impressive success story to date, and the result is a huge success. ... Read more

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Hailed in the Foreign Service Journal as "a landmark book that should command the attention of every serious student of American diplomacy, international environmental issues, or the art of negotiation," and cited in Nature for its "worthwhile insights on the harnessing of science and diplomacy," the first edition of Ozone Diplomacy offered an insider's view of the politics, economics, science, and diplomacy involved in creating the precedent-setting treaty to protect the Earth: the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The first edition ended with a discussion of the revisions to the protocol in 1990 and offered lessons for global diplomacy regarding the then just-maturing climate change issue. Now Richard Benedick--a principal architect and the chief U.S. negotiator of the historic treaty--expands the ozone story, bringing us to the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Montreal Protocol. He describes subsequent negotiations to deal with unexpected major scientific discoveries and important amendments adding new chemicals and accelerating the phaseout schedules. Implementing the revised treaty has forced the protocol's signatories to confront complex economic and political problems, including North-South financial and technology transfer issues, black markets for banned CFCs, revisionism, and industry's willingness and ability to develop new technologies and innovative substitutes. In his final chapter Benedick offers a new analysis applying the lessons of the ozone experience to ongoing climate change negotiations.

Ozone Diplomacy has frequently been cited as the definitive book on the most successful environment treaty, and is essential reading for those concerned about the future of our planet.

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Stripping away the sheen
This book is one of a handful that have appeared in the years since the Montreal Protocol that have addressed the motivations behind those that acted to bring the protocol into being.It questions the simple thesisthat it was simply an attempt to introduce environmental protection for oneof the Earths damaged resources, suggesting instead that the primarymotivation was more economically defined.the primary actors each hadsomething to be gained in seeing a ban on CFC's in favour of their(generally more expensive) alternative. In this regard it presents a massof evidence thatmight come as a surprise to those who believed that thetreaty was a hopeful first step towards international agreements to benefitthe Earth's environment, and it is a surprise that is unlikely to be apleasant one.It does no-one any good to hide from the truth however, andthe volume is thus a worthwhile read, as well as a useful pointer towardsfurther reading around this area. ... Read more

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Scientific evidence linking chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting substances to global ozone depletion led to the initial control of chemicals under the 1987 Montreal Protocol. Since then it has been realized that some actions taken to reduce future depletion of the ozone layer could also influence global warming. When the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in 1997, countries had new incentives to take account of how choices among substitutes could affect the objectives of both Protocols. This report provides the scientific context required for consideration of these choices; potential methodologies for assessing options; and technical issues relating to greenhouse gas emission reduction opportunities for each of the sectors involved, including refrigeration, air conditioning, foams, aerosols, fire protection and solvents. This IPCC/TEAP Special Report provides invaluable information for researchers in environmental science, climatology, and atmospheric chemistry, policy-makers in governments and environmental organizations, and scientists and engineers in industry. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Doors and Hardware, published by Door and Hardware Institute on March 1, 1993. The length of the article is 2062 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Winds of environmental change. (preventing ozone layer depletion by discarding chlorofluorocarbons, and hydrochlorofluorocarbons)
Author: William Eugene Carter
Publication: Doors and Hardware (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 1993
Publisher: Door and Hardware Institute
Volume: v57Issue: n3Page: p30(5)

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The Gale Encyclopedia of Science is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Measurements of snow surface-atmosphere exchange fluxes of nitrous acid at Ny-Alesund, Svalbard during springtime confirmed earlier findings that no significant emissions occurred from alkaline snow surfaces at this marine high Arctic location. On 29 April 2004 air arriving from the North Pole brought both ozone depleted air and significant snowfall. On that day we observed HONO emission fluxes of up to 40nmolm^-^2h^-^1. These emissions were made possible by the combination of two independent phenomena. The acidic snow allowed the transport of NO"3^- ions to photochemically reactive areas and the release of produced HONO from the snow interstitial air; while the absence of ozone likely increased the HONO/NO fraction over that of NO"2 in the snow interstitial air. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Social Education, published by National Council for the Social Studies on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 4448 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Global Warming and Ozone Layer Depletion: STS Issues for Social Studies Classrooms.
Author: James A. Rye
Publication: Social Education (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: National Council for the Social Studies
Volume: 65Issue: 2Page: 90

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Recent studies have demonstrated a link between ozone changescaused by human activities and changing UV levels at the Earth'ssurface, as well as a link to climate through changes in radiativeforcing and links to changes in chemical composition.
This book draws together key scientists who provide state of the artcontributions on the variable ozone layer and the interplay oflongwave and shortwave radiative interactions which link ozone, theclimate and UV issues. ... Read more

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This series will make readers wonder what might happen if particular events occurred. Grounded in fact, each book assesses the possibility or threat of an event, from melting ice caps to a fuel shortage. Each book also offers suggestions on how to respond to these environmental and ecological challenges before it's too late. ... Read more