Thanks so much to the folks who replied to my query regarding an up-to-date count of environmental treaties. I have compiled the responses below.
Cheers, Paul -- Paul, My International Environmental Agreements database at http://iea.uoregon.edu/ has this information. Go directly to the following URLs for the count: For Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs): (the dataset is comprehensive and quite up to date for MEAs -- I just updated it in December) http://iea.uoregon.edu/page.php?query=summarize_by_year&yearstart=1950&yeare nd=2010&inclusion=MEA For Bilateral Environmental Agreements (BEAs): (the dataset is less comprehensive and less up to date for BEAs) http://iea.uoregon.edu/page.php?query=summarize_by_year&yearstart=1950&yeare nd=2010&inclusion=BEA If you have questions about any of the data, email me. FYI, you can change the URL for years if you want. Hope this helps, Ron -- Paul, UNEP, with the help of Ron Mitchell (iea.uoregon.edu), just tallied this for the governance chapter of the 2010 Yearbook (http://unep.org/yearbook/2010/). Cheers, Jörg -- Dear Paul, The problem is, in my opinion, a definitional one. What is an environmental treaty? Is ENMOD an environmental or a military treaty? Is the WTO an environmental treaty (after all, has many environmental provisions, and definitely a lot of impact on environement)? Is IRENA an environmental treaty? In additon, are you looking at global treaties(UNFCCC, UNCCD, etc)? regional treaties (e.g. LRTAP, Atlantic Tuna)? or bilateral and few-lateral treaties (like most basin based)? In case it helps, I attach a paper we published counting cumulative negotiation days and budgets for ten MEAs. Not quite what you're asking, but could come in handy depending what you're trying to proof. good luck with your search, miquel -- Hi Paul, I think Timmons Roberts did it in a paper more recently, I'd check his website at Brown... Take care, Dana Fisher -- Paul, A professor at Penn State named John King Gamble was working on a massive data base for international treaties, which might include a breakout by subject matter. It's been several years since I heard about it, so I don't know where it stands now. I believe his email address is [email protected]. Best regards, John Knox Wake Forest University [original query below] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Steinberg" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 11:35:34 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [gep-ed] cumulative treaty count Does anyone know where I could find data for a figure showing growth in the total number of environmental treaties over time? Meyer et al. did this through 1990 (in their article "The structuring of a world environmental regime") by combining some data sets with unequal coverage, using multipliers and such. I'd like to get an update and a more consistent data set if possible. If this exists somewhere it will save me the effort of starting from scratch within the CIESIN/SEDAC database. Kindly respond to me directly and I'll post the responses within a week. Warm regards, Paul Paul F. Steinberg Visiting Scholar Environmental Science, Policy & Management University of California at Berkeley 510-526-4090 Associate Professor of Political Science & Environmental Policy Harvey Mudd College http://www.hmc.edu/steinberg -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
