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1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations |
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INTRODUCTION: The 'early days' of ozone-layer protection: Jay Baker's story -- The Suely Carvalho story: global worker, global citizen -- The technology and economic assessment panel of the Montreal Protocol -- Perspectives on studying global environmental governance -- A comment on collaborative regulation -- From epistemic communities to reflexive regulation and communities of practice -- On combining quantitative and qualitative approaches -- Organisation of the book -- THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL: A MOST REMARKABLE TREATY: The progression toward international co-operation on ozone-layer protection -- The significance of informal consultation -- Mostafa Tolba: at the intersection of history, biography and personality -- The institutional structure of the montreal protocol -- Overcoming the 'uncertainty' problem -- Financed technology transfer established the conditions for global partnerships -- NETWORKS IN THE OZONE-LAYER REGIME: Communities as social systems -- The ozone regime as a social system of networks -- The technology and economic assessment panel: the bridging network |
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SOCIAL CAPITAL IN ACTION: Social capital and the building of strategic information alliances -- Who are the participants? -- They came endowed with capital -- The personal rewards of capital investment: or, what have the participants become? -- COMMITTEE CONNECTIONS: Measuring connections -- Influence sets -- Mapping network connections -- Structural embeddedness -- Relational embeddedness -- Leadership -- Satisfaction with the process -- SOCIALISATION IN THE OZONE COMMUNITY: Commitment as a factor in socialisation -- Committee work as the locus of socialisation processes -- INSTITUTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS: Defining a new institutional space -- Enrolling and inspiring others -- Credibility through performance -- Affirming the new institiutional space -- Rewarding incremental success through public recognition -- LESSONS LEARNED: The new institutional space created by the Montreal Protocol -- The social relationships that facilitated implementation -- Some spin-off benefits of the success of the Montreal Protocol -- Lessons particularly pertaining to climate change -- Lessons for questions of governance |
| Summary |
It is difficult to think of a more significant example of international co-operation to address a problem that threatened the health and wellbeing of the entire planet than the 1987 Montreal Protocol for the Elimination of Ozone-Depleting Substances. This breakthrough in international environmental governance has proved to be an extraordinary success beyond rhetoric or promises. What happened and why is of tremendous importance for those looking for guidance in the future, particularly those now involved in hugely complicated negotiations on climate change. The success of the Montreal Protocol has been linked to many factors such as political will, treaty flexibility and the recognition of equity issues raised by developing countries. This highly original and provoking thesis synthesises some of the more exciting social science concepts and methods, while refining our basic understanding of environmental social change and providing policy-makers with concrete success factors to replicate |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Atmospheric ozone -- Reduction -- International cooperation
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Milieuverdragen.
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Sociale netwerken.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reichman, Nancy
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| ISBN |
9781909493230 |
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1909493236 |
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