DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Polluter Pays Principle, Global Governance, Precautionary Principle
Document Summary
International regime- exists when there are agreed upon formal and informal institutional structures, principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures and action programmes to address a specific issue. The task of such regimes is to secure negotiations, set standards of management, and find effective responses to challenges, including through adopting implementation strategies and funding mechanisms. Good governance: effectiveness: reaching your goal, efficiency: using the resources the most efficient way, precautionary principles: enables rapid response in the face of a possible danger to human, animals or plant health, or to protect the environment. Positive aspects of un summits and conferences: facilitate international negotiations, help increase co-operation, encourage participation, strengthen global focus, develop mutual understandings, lead to treaties and binding conventions, establish institutional of global governance. Negative assessment: lack substantive output, promote rhetoric of co-operation, allow only limited or elite participation particularistic in focus and ignore local lowest common dominator agreements, national interests remain dominant, overly cautious, inadequate target;
