The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-115
Author(s):  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Regime Formation

The politics of international regime formation: managing natural resources and the environment

1989 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oran R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Society ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Empirical Content ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Regime Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Do So

Why do actors in international society succeed in forming institutional arrangements or regimes to cope with some transboundary problems but fail to do so in connection with other, seemingly similar, problems? This article employs a threefold strategy to make progress toward answering this question. The first section prepares the ground by identifying and critiquing the principal models embedded in the existing literature on regime formation, and the second section articulates an alternative model, called institutional bargaining. The third section employs this alternative model to derive some hypotheses about the determinants of success in institutional bargaining and uses these hypotheses, in a preliminary way, to illuminate the process of regime formation in international society. To lend empirical content to the argument, the article focuses throughout on problems relating to natural resources and the environment.

Remote Sensing by Satellite: What Future for an International Regime?

1977 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 707-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamilton DeSaussure
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
The Earth

The combined forces of science and technology have been perfecting a new means of data acquisition which has gone largely unnoticed by the average citizen—a technique so profound in its implications for the improvement of the environment and for the allocation and conservation of natural and human resources that it has been compared to the microscope in its significance and achievement. This new technique is the viewing of the earth’s surface and its surrounding environment by means of sensing devices affixed to a platform orbiting the earth from the near reaches of outer space. Remote sensing by satellite (RSS) has been defined by the UN Working Group on Remote Sensing as a methodology to assist in characterizing the nature and conditions of the natural resources, the natural features and phenomena, and the environment of the earth by means of observation and measurements from space platforms.

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