Henrik Selin Publishes Book on Governance of Hazardous Chemicals

MIT Press just released a new book by Dr. Henrik Selin, Pardee Center Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, titled Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (2010).

The book builds on Prof. Selin’s wide-ranging research on the global management of hazardous wastes, including his 2009 Pardee Paper (No. 5) on Managing Hazardous Chemicals: Longer-Range Challenges (download PDF here).

In this new book Prof. Henrik Selin argues that the challenges posed by managing hazardous chemicals cross boundaries, jurisdictions, and constituencies. It analyzes the development, implementation, and future of the chemicals regime, a critical but understudied area of global governance, and proposes that the issues raised have significant implications for effective multilevel governance in many other areas.

In his endorsement, Prof. Oran Young of the University of California, Santa Barbara, calls Henrik Selin’s analysis “lucid, insightful, and timely.” Prof. Jennifer Clapp of the University of Waterloo says that “this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners in the field of global environmental governance.”