Lecture Notes: click here.

Reading Materials:

1. Walsh, Virginia. 1999. “Illegal Whaling for Humpbacks by the Soviet Union in the Antarctic, 1947-1972.” Journal of Environment and Development 8:3 (September), 307-327.

2. Clapp, Jennifer. 1997. “The Illegal CFC Trade: An Unexpected Wrinkle in the Ozone Protection Regime.” International Environmental Affairs 9:4 (Fall), 259-273.

3.  Озоновый кризис и Монреальский протокол.

4. ИСТОЩЕНИЕ ОЗОНОВОГО СЛОЯ ЗЕМЛИ НАД РОССИЕЙ: В поисках выхода из экологического кризиса, Хрестоматия по курсу охраны окружающей среды. Москва, Издательство МНЭПУ, 1998.

Internet Research Materials:

• International Whaling Commission
• International Convention on Regulation of Whaling (and links)
• Ozone Depletion (Yahoo links)
• The Montreal Protocol
• Ozone Depletion Links
• Http://sedac.ciesin.org/pidb/texts/intl.regulation.of.whaling.1946.html

Discussion Questions:

1. What are the proper metrics of effectiveness?
2. How can one distinguish between the effects that a treaty achieved from changes in the phenomena the treaty was supposed to effect? For instance, changes in environmental quality or behavior occurring due to the natural processes or treaty implementation.