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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the impact and design of international environmental regimes which are established to preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation. The author addresses such regimes from both a conceptual and theoretical point of view as well as using comparative empirical evidence from issue areas such as marine pollution, acid rain, ozone layer depletion and global climate change.
He examines specifically a number of controversial institutional issues in international environmental politics. Should, for instance, access to decision-processes be inclusive or exclusive in terms of non-governmental watchdogs? Similar choices and dilemmas exist with regard to decision-making rules, the role of the secretariat, the structuring of the agenda, the organization of the science-politics interface, and the design of verification and compliance mechanisms. Hence, he addresses real dilemmas faced by negotiators, in order to help formulate policies for achieving the most effective organization of international environmental institutions.
This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in environmental political economy and institutions, and policymakers and practitioners involved in the negotiation process.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Analysing the Effectiveness and Institutional Design of International Environmental Regimes: The Conceptual Lenses 3. Increasing Concern and Improving Design: The Oslo and Paris Conventions on Marine Pollution in the North-East Atlantic 4. More ‘Discursive Diplomacy’ than ‘Dashing Design’? The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) 5. A Triumph for Institutional Incentives and Flexible Design? The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion 6. Combining Comparative and Case Study Evidence: Institutional Findings 7. Designing an Effective Climate Change Regime: A Task ‘Too Hot to Handle’? 8. Designing Effective Environmental Regimes: Launching the Three Conditional Ps (Problems, Phases, and Processes) References Index
