The Combined Success of the International Tropical Timber Agreements

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2004

Authors

Chirchi, Dunya

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University of Oregon

Abstract

The improvement of international environmental regimes is a delicate science that is slowly being mastered through a complicated and costly process of trial and error. Differences in regime effectiveness are influenced by multiple variables, including politics, regime structure, scope, and power and number of actors involved. Only through comparison and analysis of different regimes and counterfactuals can the effectiveness of environmental treaties be determined. In a world with no international authority to enforce compliance of international law, regime design is the only way to improve the environment on a global level. Once evaluated, the specific parts of a regime that made it successful can be adopted and applied to future international agreements. The 1983 International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA), and its successor in 1994, attempted to further conservation of tropical timber for the use of future generations.

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Print copies of this title are available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT K3884 .C45 2004; and: SCA Archives K3884 .C45 2004
Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: 2004. Awarded a first-place scholarship. 28 p. Paper versions also available for check out or consultation in the University of Oregon's library under the call number: K3884 .C45 2004.

Keywords

Forests and forestry -- International cooperation, International Tropical Timber Agreement (1983), Timber -- International cooperation, International Tropical Timber Agreement (1994)

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