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The international community is encountering significant challenges as a consequence of global environmental change, which is apparently resulting from modern human activities, in particular the industrial production of various gases. The fundamental question facing the international community is whether the global community should seek to administer and co-ordinate its responses through existing structures, or establish one or a number of new international institutions.
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Plant, G. (1992). Institutional and Legal Responses to Global Environmental Change. In: Rowlands, I.H., Greene, M. (eds) Global Environmental Change and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21816-5_7
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