Umweltschutz durch internationale Regime

Interessen, Verhandlungsprozesse, Wirkungen

Publication: Book
Citation: Oberthür, Sebastian 1997: Umweltschutz durch internationale Regime. Interessen, Verhandlungsprozesse, Wirkungen. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.

The publication "Umweltschutz durch internationale Regime" is the revised version of the thesis of Sebastian Oberthuer, Senior Associate at Ecologic Institute. In this book, the author poses the question of how international environmental regimes contribute to environmental protection.

How do international environmental regimes contribute to environmental protection? Analysing international co-operation on the protection of the ozone layer, the prevention of oil pollution by tankers and the regulation of whaling, the author concludes that:

Firstly, there are mechanisms available to prevent actors from reducing negotiations to the least common denominator.
Secondly, environmental regimes can initiate changes in behaviour that lead to better environmental protection.
And thirdly, the conditions for further progress can be improved by feedback mechanisms.

This book makes an important contribution to the current discussion on the effectiveness of international environmental policy by showing how to more rigorously evaluate international environmental regimes, and it contains practical consequences for their organisation.

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Language: German
Authorship: Prof. Sebastian Oberthür
Published by: Verlag Leske + Budrich, Germany
Year: 1997
Dimension: 330 pp.
ISBN: 3-8100-1788-4
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Vorwort
1. Internationale Regime als Steuerungsinstrumente der Umweltpolitik (Thomas Gehring, Sebastian Oberthür)
2. Entstehung und Wandel des globalen Regimes zum Schutz der Ozonschicht (Helmut Breitmeier)
3. Das internationale Regime über weiträumige grenzüberschreitende Luftverschmutzung (Thomas Gehring)
4. Die internationale Kontrolle des grenzüberschreitenden Handels mit gefährlichen Abfällen (Basler Konvention von 1989) (Britta Meineke)
5. Routinemäßige Ölverschmutzung durch Tanker (OILPOL/MARPOL) (Sebastian Oberthür)
6. Das internationale Regime zur zivilrechtlichen Haftung für Ölverschmutzungsschäden (Jens Kellerhoff)
7. Abfallentsorgung auf See: Die Londoner Konvention von 1972 (Doris König)
8. Das Regime zum Schutz der Ostsee (Martin List)
9. Internationale Bemühungen zum Schutz des Rheins (Thomas Bernauer, Peter Moser)
10. Das Washingtoner Artenschutzabkommen (CITES) von 1973 (Peter H. Sand)
11. Das Regime über die biologische Vielfalt von 1992 (Gudrun Henne)
12. Das internationale Regime zum Schutz des Klimas (Hermann E. Ott)
13. Fazit: Internationale Umweltpolitik durch Verhandlungen und Verträge (Sebastian Oberthür, Thomas Gehring)
Abkürzungsverzeichnis
Autorinnen und Autoren
Keywords: Governance

Environmental regimes, environmental protection, feedback mechanisms, effectiveness of international environmental policy, ozone layer, oil pollution by tankers, whaling

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Gehring, Thomas and Sebastian Oberthür (eds.) 1997: Internationale Umweltregime. Umweltschutz durch Verhandlungen und Verträge]. Opladen: Leske+Budrich.