Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions
Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the de...
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ftjamescook:oai:researchonline.jcu.edu.au:10995 2024-02-11T10:07:33+01:00 Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions Walker, Brian Barrett, Scott Polasky, Stephen Galaz, Victor Folke, Carl Engstrom, Gustav Ackerman, Frank Arrow, Ken Carpenter, Stephen Chopra, Kanchan Daily, Gretchen Ehrlich, Paul Hughes, Terry Kautsky, Nils Levin, Simon Maler, Karl-Goran Shogren, Jason Vincent, Jeff Xepapadeas, Tasos de Zeeuw, Aart 2009-09-11 application/pdf https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/10995/1/walker_etal_2009_Science.pdf unknown American Association for the Advancement of Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1175325 https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/10995/ https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/10995/1/walker_etal_2009_Science.pdf Walker, Brian, Barrett, Scott, Polasky, Stephen, Galaz, Victor, Folke, Carl, Engstrom, Gustav, Ackerman, Frank, Arrow, Ken, Carpenter, Stephen, Chopra, Kanchan, Daily, Gretchen, Ehrlich, Paul, Hughes, Terry, Kautsky, Nils, Levin, Simon, Maler, Karl-Goran, Shogren, Jason, Vincent, Jeff, Xepapadeas, Tasos, and de Zeeuw, Aart (2009) Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions. Science, 325 (5946). pp. 1345-1346. restricted Article PeerReviewed 2009 ftjamescook https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1175325 2024-01-22T23:25:30Z Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interactive effects. The core of the problem is inducing cooperation in situations where individuals and nations will collectively gain if all cooperate, but each faces the temptation to take a free ride on the cooperation of others. The nation-state achieves cooperation by the exercise of sovereign power within its boundaries. The difficulty to date is that transnational institutions provide, at best, only partial solutions, and implementation of even these solutions can be undermined by internation competition and recalcitrance. We are not advocating that countries abandon sovereignty. Lack of sovereignty can impede cooperation. Piracy is an obvious example. It is rife off of the Somali coast because Somalia lacks a government capable of enforcing laws (including international laws) against piracy. Because of this, the United Nations Security Council has authorized interventions by other states within Somalia's territorial waters and even on land—an unprecedented act. Nor are we advocating simply that today's transnational institutions be strengthened; some of these institutions prevent progress or are ineffective or inefficient [e.g., (1)]. Instead, we advocate a renewed focus on effective cooperation, facilitated by better-designed institutions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification James Cook University, Australia: ResearchOnline@JCU Science 325 5946 1345 1346 |
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Energy, food, and water crises; climate disruption; declining fisheries; increasing ocean acidification; emerging diseases; and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity. They are outpacing the development of institutions to deal with them and their many interactive effects. The core of the problem is inducing cooperation in situations where individuals and nations will collectively gain if all cooperate, but each faces the temptation to take a free ride on the cooperation of others. The nation-state achieves cooperation by the exercise of sovereign power within its boundaries. The difficulty to date is that transnational institutions provide, at best, only partial solutions, and implementation of even these solutions can be undermined by internation competition and recalcitrance. We are not advocating that countries abandon sovereignty. Lack of sovereignty can impede cooperation. Piracy is an obvious example. It is rife off of the Somali coast because Somalia lacks a government capable of enforcing laws (including international laws) against piracy. Because of this, the United Nations Security Council has authorized interventions by other states within Somalia's territorial waters and even on land—an unprecedented act. Nor are we advocating simply that today's transnational institutions be strengthened; some of these institutions prevent progress or are ineffective or inefficient [e.g., (1)]. Instead, we advocate a renewed focus on effective cooperation, facilitated by better-designed institutions. |
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Walker, Brian Barrett, Scott Polasky, Stephen Galaz, Victor Folke, Carl Engstrom, Gustav Ackerman, Frank Arrow, Ken Carpenter, Stephen Chopra, Kanchan Daily, Gretchen Ehrlich, Paul Hughes, Terry Kautsky, Nils Levin, Simon Maler, Karl-Goran Shogren, Jason Vincent, Jeff Xepapadeas, Tasos de Zeeuw, Aart |
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