Effectiveness of international environmental regimes: Existing knowledge, cutting-edge themes, and research strategies
Effectiveness of international environmental regimes: Existing knowledge, cutting-edge themes, and research strategies
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10.1073/pnas.1111690108
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2011-12
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O. Young
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O. Young
在过去的三十年里，国际环境制度——尤其是那些在多边环境协议中明确表述的制度——一直是科学界非常感兴趣的主题。然而，对于这些治理系统的有效性或它们在解决导致其创建的问题方面的成功程度，存在着实质性的意见分歧。本文对有关该主题的文献进行了综述。它以一系列一般和具体命题的形式提取和总结了关于环境制度有效性的已知内容。它确定了在该领域下一阶段研究中考虑的有希望的主题。此外，它还评论了可用于进行这一分析的研究策略。总的结论是，国际环境制度能够而且确实发挥了作用，尽管常常与若干其他因素结合在一起；综合使用若干工具的战略有助于增进对成功决定因素的了解。
International environmental regimes—especially those regimes articulated in multilateral environmental agreements—have been a subject of intense interest within the scientific community over the last three decades. However, there are substantial differences of opinion regarding the effectiveness of these governance systems or the degree to which they are successful in solving the problems leading to their creation. This article provides a critical review of the literature on this topic. It extracts and summarizes what is known about the effectiveness of environmental regimes in the form of a series of general and specific propositions. It identifies promising topics for consideration in the next phase of research in this field. Additionally, it comments on the research strategies available to pursue this line of analysis. The general conclusions are that international environmental regimes can and do make a difference, although often in conjunction with a number of other factors, and that a strategy of using a number of tools combined can help to improve understanding of the determinants of success.