Re: Environmental Policy Failures compiled list

[Ruba Marshood]

I would suggest adding - to the note on sharks - that they are not only
harmed via by-catch, but also in targetted fisheries. the biggest threat is
practice in which they are treated after being caught (whether incidentally
or not) - in that they are finned and dumped back to sea. Essentially, this
is cost-effective practice as the market values fins over the rest of the
body by the tenfold...so for the fishers, it is much greater profit to take
only the fins of as many sharks as possible rather than take the whole shark
on board, with limited space, and have fewer fins.

thanks for sharing!
ruba

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Shannon K. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Thank you so much to everyone who replied with examples of
> environmental policy failures.  It was depressing but useful.
> Below is the compiled list:
>
> Shannon
>
> - collapse of the cod fishery in Newfoundland
> - European emissions trading scheme
> - Yellowstone Wildfires
> - Sharks are being torn out the ocean, but as by-catch, and no-on
> pays attention to by-catch and beyond that sharks have little
> salience in policy circles (here CITES has been neutered-- we
> only have 4 sharks listed, one on the strict list but almost all
> the great sharks have collapsed).
>
> - Coral reefs, mangroves, and sea grass communities are getting
> shredded. Mangroves have many domestic laws protecting them as
> commons, but the same countries sanction enclosure and tearing
> them down for shrimp ponds.
> - US failure to sign Kyoto
> - the fizzle of the National Acid Precip. Assess Project...
> - why the local public utility commission doesn't promote least
> cost procurement that includes energy efficiency and/or renewable
> energy, and internalizes true socio-environmental costs of all
> energy alternatives
>
> Other References:
> - Paul F. Steinberg "Understanding Policy Change in Developing
> Countries: The Spheres of Infuence Framework" Global
> Environmental Politics 3:1, February 2003
>
> Ludwig et al, about 1993 had a great short piece in either
> Science or Nature, on failure of fishery policy.
>
> - Dimitrov, Radoslav S., Detlef F. Sprinz, Gerald M. DiGiusto,
> and Alexander Kelle. 2007. International Nonregimes: A Research
> Agenda. International Studies Review 9 (2):230-258.
>
> - Rado S. Dimitrov, "Confronting Non-Regimes: Science and
> International Coral Reef Policy," Journal of Environment and
> Development, vol. 11, no. 1 (March 2002), pp. 53-78.
>
> - EEA (2005) Environmental policy integration in Europe - State
> of play and an evaluation framework, EEA Technical report No.
> 2/2005, European Environment Agency, Copenhagen,
> http://reports.eea.eu.int/technical_report_2005_2/ (7/6/05).
>
> - OECD (2002) Improving Policy Coherence and Integration for
> Sustainable Development: A Checklist, Organisation for Economic
> Cooperation and Development, Paris,
> www.oecd.org/dataoecd/60/1/1947305.pdf
>
> - Jordan, A. and Lenschow, A. (2000) 'Greening' the European
> Union: what can be learnt from the 'leaders' of EU environmental
> policy?, European Environment, 10, 109-120.
>
> - Jordan, A. and Schout, A. (2005) National EU policy
> coordination and 'integration' in EU policies. In Environmental
> Policy Integration Mechanisms and Tools, CSERGE-UEA, 21-22 March
> 2005, Norwich. Available at
> http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/highlights/march%20conf/
> envpol_integration_programme.htm (22/3/05).
>
> - Lenschow, A. (2002a) Conclusion: what are the bottlenecks and
> where are the opportunities for greening the EU? In Environmental
> Policy Integration: Greening Sectoral Policies in Europe (Ed,
> Lenschow, A.) Earthscan, London, pp. 219-233.
>
> - Lenschow, A. (2002b) Greening the European Union. In
> Environmental Policy Integration: Greening Sectoral Policies in
> Europe (Ed, Lenschow, A.) Earthscan, London, pp. 3-21.
>
> - Liberatore, A. (1997) The Integration of Sustainable Development
> Objectives into EU Policy Making: Barriers and prospects. In The
> Politics of Sustainable Development: Theory, policy and practice
> within the European Union (Eds, Baker, S., Kousis, M.,
> Richardson, D. and Young, S.) Routledge, London.
>
>
>
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