CIAO DATE: 01/03

Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence

Edward L. Miles

MIT Press

January 2001

 

Abstract

This book examines why some international environmental regimes succeed while others fail. Confronting theory with evidence, and combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, it compares fourteen case studies of international regimes. It considers what effectiveness in a regime would look like, what factors might contribute to effectiveness, and how to measure the variables. It determines that environmental regimes actually do better than the collective model of the book predicts.

The effective regimes examined involve the End of Dumping in the North Sea, Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Management of Tuna Fisheries in the Pacific, and the Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion. Mixed-performance regimes include Land-Based Pollution Control in the North Sea, the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, Satellite Telecommunication, and Management of High Seas Salmon in the North Pacific. Ineffective regimes are the Mediterranean Action Plan, Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea, International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Whaling Commission, and the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Preface (PDF format, 14 pgs, 68 kbs)

Acknowledgments (PDF format, 2 pgs, 40 kbs)

1. Introduction

   1. One Question, Two Answers (PDF format, 43 pgs, 220 kbs)
      Arild Underdal

   2. Methods of Analysis
      Arild Underdal

2. Effective Regimes
   Introduction: Common Features of Effective Regimes

   3. Toward the End of Dumping in the North Sea: The Case of the Oslo Commission
      Jon Birger Skjærseth

   4. Sea Dumping of Low-Level Radioactive Waste, 1964 to 1982
      Edward L. Miles

   5. The Management of Tuna Fisheries in the West Central and Southwest Pacific
      Edward L. Miles

   6. The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone-Layer Depletion
      Jørgen Wettestad

3. Mixed-Performance Regimes
   Introduction: Common Features of Mixed-Performance Regimes

   7. Cleaning Up the North Sea: The Case of Land-Based Pollution Control
      Jon Birger Skjærseth

   8. The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP)
      Jørgen Wettestad

   9. Satellite Telecommunication
      Edward L. Miles

   10. The Management of High-Seas Salmon in the North Pacific, 1952 to 1992
       Edward L. Miles

4. MiA Control: A High-Security Regime
   Introduction: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a Control Case

   11. Nuclear Nonproliferation, 1945 to 1995
       Edward L. Miles

5. Regimes of Low Effectiveness
   Introduction: Common Features of Ineffective Regimes

   12. The Effectiveness of the Mediterranean Action Plan
       Jon Birger Skjærseth

   13. Oil Pollution from Ships at Sea: The Ability of Nations to Protect a Blue Planet
       Elaine M. Carlin

   14. International Trade in Endangered Species: The CITES Regime
       Maaria Curlier and Steinar Andresen

   15. The International Whaling Commission (IWC): More Failure Than Success?
       Steinar Andresen

   16. The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR): Improving Procedures but Lacking Results
       Steinar Andresen

6. Conclusions

   17. Conclusions: Patterns of Regime Effectiveness
       Arild Underdal

   18. Epilogue
       Edward L. Miles and Arild Underdal, with Steinar Andresen, Elaine Carlin, Jon Birger Skjærseth, and Jørgen Wettestad

Appendixes

Appendix A
Incongruity Problems: A More Technical Description

Appendix B
Seattle/Oslo Project Codebook: Selected Variables

Appendix C
Data File: Key Variables

Contributors

Index