POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Precautionary Principle, Montreal Protocol, Rio Declaration On Environment And Development
4 May 2017
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When things are owned in common, or are unowned, the result tends to be a decline in both the quality and quantity of the thing. If no one speci cally cares for an asset, that asset may be used up and disappear. Enclosing areas to ensure responsibility is designed to remedy the tragedy of the commons. Physically impossible to enclose the global commons. Un convention on the law of the seas (unclos) Sets out clear regulations about who is responsible for what on the high seas. Economic activities: 200 miles from shore (exclusive economic zones) Beyond the limits of eezs, the high seas remain common, public and unregulated. Turned the entire continent into an international ecological park. Main purpose of human activity is scienti c research. Critcisms: too idealistic, too remote, too lacking in valuable resources. Carved up into competing territorial claims by circumpolar powers (canada, united. The arctic is much closer, more hospitable, and has resources.
