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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Herring, Ronald J. |
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Conference:
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Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association |
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Location:
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Chicago, IL |
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Conf. Date:
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August 31-September 2 |
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Date:
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1995 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5769
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Sector:
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Global Commons |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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timber
conservation
wildlife
international relations
tragedy of the commons
markets
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Abstract:
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"Nature policy typically involves a struggle with the market, which over time tends to extend commoditization to virtually everything ; regulatory logic limiting market dynamics has been a mainstay of environmental protection. Once 'nature' becomes conceptually commoditized as 'natural resources,' conservation competes with development as a frame for defining interests in the biophysical world. The science of ecology later adds the more demanding concept of preservation as a third competing interest. In international negotiations addressed to global commons issues, nation-states represent themselves as agents of societies and as holders of rights in nature. Both claims are typically problematic. States' capacity to assume such obligations is a function of the tenuous and contested nature of their domestic claims. Attempts to exert power through command-and-control systems often further delegitimize the state vis-a -
vis users of natural systems and reduce the possiblity of governance. This paper considers three elements of the international nature regime — the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the International Tropical Timber Agreement and the World Heritage Convention — and their dynamics in India."
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