Engaging Countries: Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental AccordsEdith Brown Weiss, Harold Karan Jacobson MIT Press, 2000 - 615 Seiten Treaties and other international accords are a primary means of dealing with environmental problems involving two or more countries. Despite this, we know very little about what happens after states sign and become parties to such accords. This study systematically examines how states implement and comply with international environmental accords. The culmination of a massive theoretically based empirical research project, it shows how and why implementation and compliance vary among countries and treaties and change over time. It also analyzes the factors that affect the extent of compliance and offers prescriptions for strengthening national compliance with international accords. The book focuses on compliance in eight countries (Brazil, Cameroon, China, Hungary, India, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United States) and the European Union and on five major accords: the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972), the International Maritime Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matters (1972), the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (1973), the International Tropical Timber Agreement (1983), and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987). This pioneering venture will be a major resource for scholars interested in compliance in general, in international environmental issues, and in international law. Contributors |
Inhalt
A Framework for Analysis | 1 |
How Compliance Happens and Doesnt Happen Domestically | 19 |
A Comparative Perspective | 39 |
Implications for Implementation | 63 |
A Living History | 89 |
Taking Environmental Treaties Seriously | 173 |
A Story in the Making | 215 |
ConsensusBased Compliance | 253 |
Political Interest Bureaucratic Will | 327 |
Implementation Under Economic Growth and Market Reform | 353 |
Embedded Capacities | 395 |
Signed Sealed but Undelivered | 437 |
Regional Inequalities and Ecological Diversity in a Federal System | 475 |
Assessing the Record and Designing Strategies to Engage Countries | 511 |
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