Environmental Regime Effectiveness Confronting Theory with Evidence

Author/creator Miles, Edward Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge : MIT Press
Description530 p. ill 09.000 x 06.000 in.
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Other author/creatorAndresen, Steinar Author
Other author/creatorSkjaerseth, Jon Birger Author
Other author/creatorUnderdal, Arild Author
Other author/creatorWettestad, Jorgen Author
SeriesGlobal Environmental Accord Ser. Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation
Summary Annotation <p>This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the collective model of the book predicts.The effective regimes examined involve the End of Dumping in the North Sea, Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific, and the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion. Mixed-performance regimes include Land-Based Pollution Control in the North Sea, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Satellite Telecommunication, and Management of High Seas Salmon in the North Pacific. Ineffective regimes are the Mediterranean Action Plan, Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea, International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Whaling Commission, and the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.</p>
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LCCN 2001044183
ISBN9780262133944
ISBN0262133946 (Trade Cloth) Out of Print
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