Institutional interaction in global environmental governance : synergy and conflict among international and EU policies / / edited by Sebastian Oberthür and Thomas Gehring ; with a foreword by Oran R. Young

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (429 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7/0526
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy - International cooperation; Environmental policy - European Union countries; Environmental law, International
• Soggetto non controllato: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security; ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy
• Altri autori: OberthürSebastian GehringThomas <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Foreword; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Conceptual Foundations of Institutional Interaction; 3 The Climate Change Regime: Interactions with ICAO, IMO, and the EU Burden-Sharing Agreement; 4 The Convention on Biological Diversity: Tensions with the WTO TRIPS Agreement over Access to Genetic Resources and the Sharing of Benefits; 5 Protecting the Northeast Atlantic: One Problem, Three Institutions; 6 Institutional Interplay and Responsible Fisheries: Combating Subsidies, Developing Precaution ; 7 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): Responding to Calls for Action from Other Nature Conservation Regimes8 Interactions between the World Trade Organization and International Environmental Regimes; 9 Interactions of EU Legal Instruments Establishing Broad Principles of Environmental Management: The Water Framework Directive and the IPPC Directive; 10 The EU Habitats Directive: Enhancing Synergy with Pan-European Nature Conservation and with the EU Structural Funds ; 11 The EU Deliberate Release Directive: Environmental Precaution versus Trade and Product Regulation12 The EU Air Quality Framework Directive: Shaped and Saved by Interaction?; 13 Comparative Empirical Analysis and Ideal Types of Institutional Interaction; Appendix: Overview of Identified Cases of Institutional Interaction; Index; Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation This systematic investigation of the interaction among international and European institutions provides both a theoretical framework for analysis and the first broad overview of this largely uncharted field of research. By offering detailed case studies and a systematic analysis of results, the book examines the effects of institutional interaction on environmental governance and explores the ways in which international and European Union policies can either reinforce or undercut one another. After a conceptual overview in which Oberthür and Gehring identify three causal mechanisms by which institutional interaction can affect environmental governance, ten case studies apply this theoretical approach. Six cases use an international institution as their starting point and four begin with a European Union legal instrument. The international regimes examined include the widely known Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and World Trade Organization and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The EU instruments analyzed include lesser-known directives on the protection of habitats, the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms into the environment, and air quality. The studies show that although conflict and interference among different regimes and institutions do take place, synergistic interactions are common. The findings on the importance of, and mechanisms behind, these outcomes offer valuable insights for both scholars and policymakers. Contributors:Beatrice Chaytor, Clare Coffey, Andrew Farmer, Thomas Gehring, John Lanchbery, Sebastian Oberthür, Alice Palmer, G. Kristin Rosendal, Jon Birger Skjærseth, Olav Schram Stokke, Ingmar von Homeyer, Jacob Werksman, Jørgen Wettestad.
• Titolo autorizzato: Institutional interaction in global environmental governance
• ISBN: 1-282-10082-3; 9786612100826; 0-262-28094-9; 1-4237-6981-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777535303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II