Subject(s): International Environmental Law -- Environmental economics -- International cooperation -- Environmental management -- International cooperation -- Environmental policy -- Environmental degradation -- Natural Resources -- Planetary stewardship -- Global scale environmental challenges : Acid rain and regional air pollution, ozone depletion, climate disruption, deforestation, land degradation and desertification, freshwater degradation and shortages, marine fisheries decline, toxic pollutants, loss of biological diversity, excess nitrogen, underlying drivers of deterioration -- From Stockholm to Johannesburg - first attempt at global environmental governance : Stockholm conference, Stockholm to Rio, earth summit, Rio to Johannesburg, Johannesburg summit -- Environmental accord- treaties and international environmental law : International law and collective action, ozone layer protection regime, treaty regimes and other major global environmental threats -- UN, international organizations and civil society : Development assistance and environment, world trade organization, environment, trade and globalization, civil society and governance without governments -- Second attempt at global environmental governance : Reformist visions, cooperative environment, capacity, world environment organization, opening system to public, global issues networks, alternative visions- how to change the system, natural capitalism, blinkered capitalism, ecological economics, neoclassical economics, local control, corporate globalization, global governance