The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes

by Oran R. Young (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262740234
• ISBN10: 0262740230
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-02
• Publisher: Mit Pr

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: 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.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Contributors	xv
The Effectiveness of International Environmental Regimes	1	(32)
Oran R. Young
Marc A. Levy
International Vessel-Source Oil Pollution	33	(58)
Ronald Mitchell
Moira L. McConnell
Alexei Roginko
Ann Barrett
The Barents Sea Fisheries	91	(64)
Olav Schram Stokke
Lee G. Anderson
Natalia Mirovitskaya
Acid Rain in Europe and North America	155	(94)
Don Munton
Marvin Soroos
Elena Nikitina
Marc A. Levy
Regime Effectiveness: Taking Stock	249	(32)
Oran R. Young
Appendix: Notes on Methodology	281	(8)
References	289	(26)
Index	315