The Nation State and Responses to Global Environmental Change

气候变化、生物多样性丧失、臭氧层 资源枯竭和其他全球环境问题成为中心问题 在国家和国际政策辩论的舞台上， 国家变得越来越具有决定性。 该项目研究了 民族国家是塑造这两种力量的关键角色， 造成全球变化和人类对它的反应。 关于民族国家的指标数据被用来制定和测试 国家环境政策的宏观比较理论。 的 模型包括公民富裕程度、经济 增长率和资本存量，在世界上的依赖地位， 经济秩序，经济结构，人口压力， 阶级结构和教育，国家的力量 环保运动，科学资源，民主程度， 以及文化和制度的历史。 因为， 环保运动的力量和环保运动的力量 环境科学界迄今为止还没有，这 研究项目通过结合客观指标填补了这一空白 专家小组的评估， 玩具开发这些措施。 该项目增加了比较政策， 国际关系领域，通过严格审查 考虑一个国家在世界上的地位的重要性 政治经济学作为国家控制程度的决定因素 保护环境的重要性。 它提供了新的 了解是什么导致各国接受各种 限制其自主权，以保护 环境

As issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, ozone depletion and other global environmental problems come to center stage in national and international policy debates, the role of the state becomes increasingly decisive. This project studies the nation state as a critical actor in shaping both the forces that cause global change and human response to it. Macro-social indicator data on nation states are used to develop and test a macro-comparative theory of state environmental policy. The model includes such factors as citizen affluence, economic growth rates and capital stock, position of dependency in a world economic order, structure of the economy, population pressure, class structure and education, the strength of the national environmental movement, scientific resources, level of democracy, and cultural and institutional history. Because measures of the strength of the environmental movement and the strength of the environmental science community were heretofore unavailable, this research project fills that gap by combining objective indicators from secondary sources with assessments of a panel of experts in order toy develop those measures. This project adds to the comparative policy and international relations field by examining rigorously the importance of considering a nation's position in the world political economy as a determinant of the degree of state control of the protection of the environment. It contributes new understanding of what leads nations toward accepting various restrictions on their autonomy for the sake of protecting the environment.