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INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS-POLITICS LAW AND ECONOMICS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 5-19Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-020-09468-6
Keywords
International regimes; Institutional overload; Institutional reductionism; Risk factors; Response strategies
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- Research Council of Norway through POLARPROG Project: Spatial Shifts of Marine Stocks and the Resilience of Polar Resource Management (STOCKSHIFT) [257614]
- Oslo University
- Oslo University Hospital
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Many efforts to solve environmental problems arising at the international or transnational level meet with limited success or even end in outright failure. But some efforts of this sort succeed. We construct an analytical model of such efforts leading to the conclusion that an ability to steer a course that avoids the twin perils of institutional reductionism and institutional overload is necessary to achieve success in this realm. We examine a range of risk factors or conditions likely to push processes of regime formation and implementation into one or the other of these pitfalls. We then analyze response strategies or procedures that negotiators and administrators can adopt to steer a course between the two perils, taking into account distinctive features of specific problems. We turn to marine issues to illustrate our reasoning. But the argument is applicable to the entire range of efforts to create and implement international environmental regimes.
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