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Environmental Regime Effectiveness
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.
International Politics and the Environment
This book provides a sophisticated overview of the theories, concepts and methods central to the complex and contentious field of International Environmental Politics (IEP). Ronald B Mitchell carefully introduces students to the political processes involved in both causing and resolving international environmental problems. Each fully integrated chapter: Links environmental policy to politics, bringing in a wide range of practical real-life examples Deepens students′ theoretical understanding, helping them to identify and explain international environmental problems and their solutions Goes beyond description and develops students′ ability to evaluate claims about outcomes in internation...
Disaggregating International Regimes
"Evaluating the effectiveness of international regimes presents challenges that are both general and specific. What are the best methodologies for assessment within a governance area and do they enable comparison across areas? In this book, Olav Schram Stokke connects the general to the specific, developing new tools for assessing international regime effectiveness and then applying them to a particular case, governance of the Barents Sea fisheries. Stokke's innovative disaggregate methodology makes cross-comparison possible by breaking down the problem and the relevant empirical evidence"--Provided by publisher.
Global Environmental Assessments
A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.
Politics, Philosophy, Culture
The late Michael Foucault left behind an impressive collection of interviews that demonstrate the breadth and diversity of his concerns and offer a unique opportunity to come to terms with the entire body of his work.
Towards Principled Oceans Governance
The sea change towards principled oceans governance / Donald R. Rothwell and David L. VanderZwaag -- Beyond the buzzwords : a perspective on integrated coastal and ocean management in Canada / Aldo Chircop and Larry Hildebrand -- Operationalizing integrated coastal and oceans management in Australia : the challenges / Veronica Sakell -- The application of compliance and enforcement strategies on Canada's Pacific coast / Francois Bailet, Janna Cumming, and Ted L. McDorman -- Integrated maritime enforcement and compliance in Australia / Sam Bateman. [et al.] -- Canada and the precautionary principle/approach in ocean and coastal management : wading and wandering in tricky currents / David L. V...
The Politics of Structural Choice of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation
For over a century, states have been crafting international institutions to address a wide range of environmental problems but the effectiveness of these institutions has been limited. Theories of international relations have historically guided research on these institutions, but this scholarship has failed to provide adequate insights into why states have not been able to design effective institutions. This study utilizes an alternative approach, a theory of domestic politics, in particular the positive theory of public bureaucracies, to analyze the design of these institutions. The main thesis of this study is that the design of international environmental institutions reflects efforts of...
Descendents [sic] of Jacob and Susanna Kissinger
A genealogy of the descendants of Jacob Kissinger born about 1690 and his wife Susanna. He came form the Protocols of Electoral Palatinate District of Heidelberg to America in 1726/27. Many of his descendants settled in Gratz Valley, Berks County, Lebanon County, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Trashing the Planet
For educators, public officials, scientists, and common citizens, this extensively hailed national bestseller provides an invaluable and sensible approach for understanding and saving the environment. A remarkable and illuminating book for everyone concerned about conservation and ecology.
