Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)

531 Pages·2001·2.11 MB·English

by  Edward L. Miles

Environmental
Regime Effectiveness
Confronting Theory with
Evidence
Edward L. Miles
Arild Underdal
Steinar Andresen
Jørgen Wettestad
Jon Birger Skjærseth
Elaine M. Carlin
Environmental Regime Effectiveness
Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and
Institutional Innovation
Nazli Choucri, editor
Nazli Choucri, editor, Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and
International Responses
Peter M. Haas, Robert O. Keohane, and Marc A. Levy, editors, Institutions for
the Earth: Sources of Effective International Environmental Protection
Ronald B. Mitchell, Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and
Treaty Compliance
Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy, editors, Institutions for Environmental
Aid: Pitfalls and Promise
Oran R. Young, editor, Global Governance: Drawing Insights from the
Environmental Experience
Jonathan A. Fox and L. David Brown, editors, The Struggle for Accountability:
The World Bank, NGOS, and Grassroots Movements
David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff, editors, The
Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental
Commitments: Theory and Practice
Mostafa K. Tolba, with Iwona Rummel-Bulska, Global Environmental
Diplomacy: Negotiating Environmental Agreements for the World, 1973–1992
Karen T. Litfin, editor, The Greening of Sovereignty in World Politics
Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson, editors, Engaging Countries:
Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords
Oran R. Young, editor, The Effectiveness of International Environmental
Regimes: Causal Connections and Behavioral Mechanisms
Ronie Garcia-Johnson, Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational
Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico
Lasse Ringius, Radioactive Waste Disposal at Sea: Public Ideas, Transnational
Policy Entrepreneurs, and Environmental Regimes
Robert G. Darst, Smokestack Diplomacy: Cooperation and Conflict in East-West
Environmental Politics
Urs Luterbacher and Detlef F. Sprinz, editors, International Relations and Global
Climate Change
Edward L. Miles, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen, Jørgen Wettestad, Jon Birger
Skjærseth, and Elaine M. Carlin, Environmental Regime Effectiveness:
Confronting Theory with Evidence
Environmental Regime Effectiveness
Confronting Theory with Evidence
Edward L. Miles, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen,
Jørgen Wettestad, Jon Birger Skjærseth, and Elaine M. Carlin
The MIT Press
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Environmental regime effectiveness : confronting theory with evidence / Edward L. Miles
...[et al.].
p. cm.—(Global environmental accord)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-262-13394-6 (hc. : alk. paper)—ISBN 0-262-63241-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Environmental policy—International cooperation—Case studies. I. Miles,
Edward L. II. Global environmental accord.
GE170 .E578 2002
363.7¢0526—dc21
2001044183
To the memory of Meg O’Hara (1944–1998), who also lived this book
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xxi
I Introduction
1 One Question, Two Answers 3
Arild Underdal
2 Methods of Analysis 47
Arild Underdal
II Effective Regimes
Introduction: Common Features of Effective Regimes 63
3 Toward the End of Dumping in the North Sea: The Case of the Oslo
Commission 65
Jon Birger Skjærseth
4 Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, 1964 to 1982 87
Edward L. Miles
5 The Management of Tuna Fisheries in the West Central and Southwest
Pacific 117
Edward L. Miles
6 The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Layer
Depletion 149
Jørgen Wettestad
III Mixed-Performance Regimes
Introduction: Common Features of Mixed-Performance Regimes 173
7 Cleaning Up the North Sea: The Case of Land-Based Pollution Control 175
Jon Birger Skjærseth
viii Contents
8 The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
(CLRTAP) 197
Jørgen Wettestad
9 Satellite Telecommunication 223
Edward L. Miles
10 The Management of High-Seas Salmon in the North Pacific,
1952 to 1992 249
Edward L. Miles
IV A Control: A High-Security Regime
Introduction: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a Control Case 271
11 Nuclear Nonproliferation, 1945 to 1995 273
Edward L. Miles
V Regimes of Low Effectiveness
Introduction: Common Features of Ineffective Regimes 309
12 The Effectiveness of the Mediterranean Action Plan 311
Jon Birger Skjærseth
13 Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea: The Ability of Nations to Protect a Blue
Planet 331
Elaine M. Carlin
14 International Trade in Endangered Species: The CITES Regime 357
Maaria Curlier and Steinar Andresen
15 The International Whaling Commission (IWC): More Failure Than
Success? 379
Steinar Andresen
16 The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR): Improving Procedures but Lacking Results 405
Steinar Andresen
VI Conclusions
17 Conclusions: Patterns of Regime Effectiveness 433
Arild Underdal
18 Epilogue 467
Edward L. Miles and Arild Underdal, with Steinar Andresen,
Elaine Carlin, Jon Birger Skjærseth, and Jørgen Wettestad
Contents ix
Appendixes
Appendix A
Incongruity Problems: A More Technical Description 477
Appendix B
Seattle/Oslo Project Codebook: Selected Variables 479
Appendix C
Data File: Key Variables 486
Contributors 493
Index 495