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Title

The effectiveness of international environmental regimes : causal connections and behavioral mechanisms / edited by Oran R. Young.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Young, Oran R.

Description

xiv, 326 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

To be effective, an international regime must play a significant role in solving or at least managing the problem that led to its creation. But because regimes--social institutions composed of roles, rules, and relationships--are not actors in their own right, they can succeed only by influencing the behavior of their members or actors operating under their members' jurisdiction. This book examines how regimes influence the behavior of their members and those associated with them. It identifies six mechanisms through which regimes affect behavior and discusses the role of each through in-depth case studies of three major environmental concerns: intentional vessel-source oil pollution, shared fisheries, and transboundary acid rain. The behavioral mechanisms feature regimes as utility modifiers, as enhancers of cooperation, as bestowers of authority, as learning facilitators, as role definers, and as agents of internal realignments. The case studies show how these mechanisms can cause variations in effectiveness both across regimes and within individual regimes over time. One of the book's primary contributions is to develop methods to demonstrate which causal mechanisms come into play with specific regimes. It emphasizes the need to supplement conventional models assuming unitary and utility-maximizing actors to explain variations in regime effectiveness. Contributors include Lee G. Anderson, Ann Barrett, Marc A. Levy, Moira L. McConnell, Natalia Mirovitskaya, Ronald Mitchell, Don Munton, Elena Nikitina, Gail Osherenko, Alexei Roginko, Marvin Soroos, Olav Schram Stokke, Oran R. Young.

Series Statement

Global environmental accord

Uniform Title

Global environmental accords

Subject

• Environmental law, International
• Environmental policy > International cooperation
• Transboundary pollution > Law and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-314) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The effectiveness of international environmental regimes / Oran R. Young and Marc A. Levy (with the assistance of Gail Osherenko) -- International vessel-source oil pollution / Ronald Mitchell [and others] -- The Barents Sea fisheries / Olav Schram Stokke, Lee G. Anderson, and Natalia Mirovitskaya -- Acid rain in Europe and North America / Don Munton [and others] -- Regime effectiveness: taking stock / Oran R. Young (with the assistance of the project team).

ISBN

• 0262740230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262240424 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99011114^

OCLC

40619459

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Harvard Library