The convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is one of the oldest multilateral environmental agreements. Since it was established to prevent international trade in wild animals and plants from threatening their survival, an complex system has evolved to induce countries to comply with and enforce the treaty's trade controls. This book presents the first definitive study of the CITES compliance system?a self-policing system which relies heavily on recommended trade suspensions to deal with non-compliance. It concludes that trade suspensions are effective, but identifies several weaknesses in the system. A strategy is advanced to address these weaknesses, drawing on lessons from other international compliance systems, and the potential for conflict between CITES trade restrictions and the WTO is analysed.
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"This book is a must for environmental lawyers, law enforcers and policy-makers, but its clear style makes it accessible to all with an interest in conserving wildlife. It also has the potential to transform CITES. Based as it is on thorough research, its findings cannot be ignored." --David Shepherd, OBE FRSA "Not least among the merits of Dr. Reeve's analysis is the fact that rather than expounding 'law on the books,' its focus is the accuumulated lessons of 30 years of regime praxis--'rules in use,' as it were. That is why I am confident that this study will make a lasting contribution to our understanding of what works--and what doesn't work--in global environmental governance." --Peter H. Sand, From the Foreword
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 146 mm
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978-1-85383-880-4 (9781853838804)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Rosalind Reeve is an environmental lawyer specializing in wildlife trade issues, and an Associate Fellow of the Sustainable Development Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
Part I: Setting the Scene - Introduction * Overview of Compliance Control * Part II: CITES Compliance System: Primary Rules and Information - Primary Rules * Information System * Part III: CITES Compliance System: Non-compliance Response - Problem Countries * Problem Issues * Significant Trade Review * High-profile Appendix I Species * Enforcement, Technical Assistance and Capacity-building * Part IV: Weaknesses, Lessons and Potential Conflict - 10 Weaknesses in the CITES Compliance System * Learning from other Compliance Systems * Relationship with the WTO * Part V: Looking to the Future - Conclusions and Recommendations * Part VI: Annexes - Key Dates of CITES Meetings * Interpol ECOMESSAGE * Countries and Species Affected by Standing Committee Recommended Import Suspensions Under the Significant Trade Review as of 9 April 2002
