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. 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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 Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. This book was set in Sabon by Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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 This Page Intentionally Left Blank 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
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