The Global Commons Environmental and Technological Governance

by Vogler, John

• ISBN13: 9780471985747
• ISBN10: 0471985740
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-22
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

This new and updated edition is essential for those wanting to understand the limits to collective action on global environmental problems. It develops and applies the tools of regime analysis to the question of how the various global commons are, or fail to be, governed effectively.Since the publication of the first edition of The Global Commons there have been many developments particularly in the area of climate change and sustainable development e.g. Agenda 21. This new edition has been extensively re-written and expanded to take into account recent developments and includes new conclusions on the connections between global and local commons. Involving the first systematic comparative analysis of governance regimes, the book covers: The Third Law of the Sea Convention, the deep seabed, whaling and marine pollution regimes Antarctica and the Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection Outer space regimes for weapons, the operation of satellites and the emerging problem of orbital debrisThe global atmosphere, the Montreal Protocol for the protection of the stratospheric ozone layer and the developing climate change regime and the Kyoto Protocol. The first edition received widespread praise eg "a comprehensive and incisive review of much relevant scholarship and case study material" (Area) and "a must for every reading list" (Progress in Human Geography) and this latest volume will also be invaluable for researchers and students of politics, environmental management, international relations and political geography.

Author Biography

John Vogler is the author of The Global Commons: Environmental and Technological Governance, 2nd Edition, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	xv
International Agreements on the Global Commons	xvii
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xxi
The Governance of the Commons	1	(19)
The Nature of the Commons	2	(4)
The Global Commons	6	(4)
The `Tragedy of the Commons'	10	(5)
Governance and Regimes	15	(3)
Notes	18	(2)
Regime Analysis	20	(24)
Issue Areas	23	(2)
Actors	25	(4)
Principles and Norms	29	(5)
Decision-making Procedures	34	(2)
Rules	36	(3)
Regime Change	39	(3)
Notes	42	(2)
The Oceans	44	(29)
The Law of the Sea	45	(3)
Whaling	48	(7)
Marine Pollution	55	(6)
The Deep Seabed	61	(7)
Summary	68	(1)
Notes	69	(4)
Antarctica	73	(22)
The Antarctic Treaty System - A Single Regime	77	(1)
Principles and Norms	78	(5)
Organization and Procedures	83	(2)
Rules	85	(4)
Monitoring and Enforcement	89	(1)
Scientific Activity	90	(1)
Summary	91	(2)
Notes	93	(2)
Outer Space	95	(27)
The Space Commons and Space Law	99	(3)
Military Uses	102	(2)
Environment and Space Debris	104	(4)
Information Flow	108	(3)
Orbit and Spectrum	111	(7)
Summary	118	(1)
Notes	119	(3)
The Atmosphere	122	(30)
Stratospheric Ozone	124	(9)
Climate Change	133	(13)
Summary	146	(1)
Notes	147	(5)
Regime Effectiveness	152	(32)
Effectiveness as International Law	155	(7)
Effectiveness as Transfer of Authority	162	(4)
Effectiveness as Behaviour Modification	166	(9)
Effectiveness as Problem Solving	175	(4)
Regime Assessment	179	(2)
Notes	181	(3)
Explaining Regime Incidence and Change	184	(28)
Structural Explanations	186	(9)
Utilitarian Explanations	195	(4)
Plural Interests and Values	199	(5)
Changing Cognitions - Epistemic Communities	204	(3)
A Synthesis?	207	(3)
Notes	210	(2)
Conclusion	212	(15)
Global and Local Commons	214	(8)
Multi-layer Governance	222	(4)
Notes	226	(1)
References	227	(12)
Index	239