Engaging countries
Subtitle: strengthening compliance with international environmental accords
By: edited by Edith Brown Weiss and Harold K. Jacobson.
Contributors: Weiss, Edith Brown, 1942-; Jacobson, Harold Karan.
Series: Global environmental accords
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
Subjects: Environmental law, International.; Environmental policy.; Treaties.; International organization.
Description: This study systematically examines how states implement and comply with international environmental accords. The culmination of a massive theoretically based empirical research project, it shows how and why implementation and compliance vary among countries and treaties and change over time. It also analyzes the factors that affect the extent of compliance and offers prescriptions for strengthening national compliance with international accords.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-589) and index.