A Different Approach to Understanding Environmental Regime Creation

Abstract

“The environment” became an issue when the effects of the deterioration of many environmental services and its risks to human health began to be perceived. This first took place mainly in developed countries, the obvious connection being that it was there that human activity had been undertaken on such a large scale, thanks to industrialization, that environmental services could not cope. Thus, air and water pollution and land contamination problems began to be addressed at the domestic level in numerous countries.