Environmental Diplomacy - Bibliography
Bailey, Thomas. "The North Pacific Sealing Convention of 1911." Pacific Historical Review 4 (1935): 1–14.
Benedick, Richard Elliot. Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet. Enlarged ed. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. A fascinating firsthand account by a U.S. diplomat of international efforts to protect the ozone layer.
Campbell, Charles Jr. "The Anglo-American Crisis in the Bering Sea, 1890–1891." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 66 (1961): 395–410.
——. "The Bering Sea Settlements of 1892." Pacific Historical Review 32 (1963): 347–368.
Carroll, John E. Environmental Diplomacy: An Examination and A Prospective of Canadian–U.S. Transboundary Environmental Relations. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1983. Examines post-1945 issues in transborder pollution and shared resource use from a natural resources perspective.
Chacko, Chirakaikaran Joseph. The International Joint Commission Between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. New York, 1968. The best single study of the International Joint Commission.
Dorsey, Kurk. "Scientists, Citizens, and Statesmen: U.S.–Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era." Diplomatic History 19 (1995): 407–430.
——. The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.–Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. Seattle, 1998. Analyzes early treaties to protect birds, seals, and fish in North America.
French, Hilary F. Partnership for the Planet: An Environmental Agenda for the United Nations. Washington, D.C., 1995. One of the leading members of the NGO community presents an agenda for future environmental diplomacy.
Hollick, Ann L. U.S. Foreign Policy and the Law of the Sea. Princeton, N.J., 1981.
Innis, Harold A. The Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy. Rev. ed. Toronto, 1978. A classic work in the field that examines the regulation and use of oceanic fisheries.
Levering, Ralph B., and Miriam L. Levering. Citizen Action for Global Change: The Neptune Group and Law of the Sea. Syracuse, N.Y., 1999. Demonstrates the roles of private citizens in shaping UNCLOS III.
Lytle, Mark. "An Environmental Approach to American Diplomatic History." Diplomatic History 20 (1996): 279–300. The first work that any historian interested in environmental diplomacy should read.
McNeill, J. R. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York, 2000. An ambitious synthesis and analysis of modern global environmentalism.
Roos, John F. Restoring Fraser River Salmon: A History of the International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission, 1937–1985. Vancouver, 1991.
Sand, Peter H., ed. The Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements: A Survey of Existing Legal Instruments. Cambridge, 1992.
Susskind, Lawrence E. Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements. New York, 1994.
Tolba, Mostafa K. Global Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating Environmental Agreements for the World, 1973–1992. Cambridge, Mass., 1998. One of the UN's leading environmental diplomats draws lessons from twenty years of work.
Tønnessen, J. N., and A. O. Johnsen. The History of Modern Whaling. Translated by R. I. Christophersen. Berkeley, Calif., 1982. The best single volume on whaling, the whaling commission, and the whaling industry.
Tucker, Richard P. Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World. Berkeley, Calif., 2000. Shows the environmental impact of the U.S. informal empire.
Wirth, John D. Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution. Lawrence, Kans., 2000. The most valuable interpretation of the Trail Smelter Case and subsequent U.S.–Mexican pollution problems.
Young, Oran R., George J. Demko, and Kilaparti Ramakrishna, eds. Global Environmental Change and International Governance. Hanover, N.H., 1996. A number of political scientists analyze the new trends in environmental diplomacy and their impacts on sovereignty.