and our
processes for making decisions regarding cooperation at the global level
(which this book will call global governance). These issues often turn out to be
interconnected, although they may not seem so at first. For example, energy
consumption drives climate change, which in turn threatens marine fisheries
through changes in ocean temperature and chemistry, and other food
resources through changes in rainfall patterns. For purposes of this book we
group global issues into the five thematic areas shown in Table 1.1. Of course,
there are also other possible categorizations and other approaches to global
issues.2