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Interlinkages and the Effectiveness of Multilateral Environmental
Agreements
By W. Bradnee Chambers
W. Bradnee Chambers is Senior Programme Officer at the
United Nations University
Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in Yokohama, Japan.
In recent years there has been growing awareness that a major reason for the worsen-
ing global environment is the failure to create adequate institutional
responses to fully
address the scope, magnitude and complexity of environmental problems. Much of the
criticism directed at the global institutions has focused on the necessity for greater co-
ordination and synergism among Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and
among policies and laws that take better account of the
inter-relationships between
ecological and societal systems. This book seeks to fill the gap in knowledge and policy-
making that exists and push our understanding on how we approach international en-
vironmental law. In the course of doing so, it examines the
essence of the assumptions
made about cooperation among MEAs, provides a framework for measuring the effec-
tiveness of MEAs and shows how the effectiveness of MEAs
can be improved through
strengthening their interlinkages. Moreover, it demonstrates how MEAs that cooperate
with treaties outside the environment under other pillars of
sustainable development can
also improve their effectiveness.
