Common-pool resources and international environmental politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Samuel Barkin (0000-0001-7131-4099, University of Victoria), George E Shambaugh (0000-0003-3607-5082, Georgetown University) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 429-447 |
| Publication date | 1996-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644019608414281 |
| OpenAlex | W3121188436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 24 |
International Relations scholars have traditionally treated international environmental and resource issues as public‐goods problems. This characterisation is misleading. These issues are more accurately defined as common‐pool resource problems. The difference between the two is more than just semantic. It has profound theoretical and practical implications. At a minimum, the issue of scarcity makes common‐pool resource problems both more prone to conflict spirals and less prone to solution through institutional mechanisms designed to alleviate market failure than public‐goods problems. Recasting environmental problems as common‐pool resource problems is important two particular ways. First, it provides a more accurate description of these problems by focusing the researcher's and policy‐maker's attention on the political nature of these problems and their solutions. Distributional issues associated with the maintenance and consumption of environmental goods, unimportant in a pure public‐goods situation, are emphasised. Second, it highlights how the political dynamics of bargaining, problem recognition, and maintenance change as resource limits are recognised and goods formerly thought of as public are recognised as common‐pool
Business · Common-pool resource · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public good · Scarcity · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · International Development and Aid · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Transboundary Water Resource Management
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Governing the Commons
National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade
The Ultimate Resource
After Hegemony
Cooperation under Anarchy
Local Commons and Global Interdependence
The Logic of Collective Action
The resourceful earth
Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict
Polar politics
Saving the Mediterranean
On the Oligopolistic Extraction of Non-Renewable Common-Pool Resources
Cartel Stability in an Exhaustible Resource Model
Asymmetrical bargaining in the conference on security and cooperation in Europe
Public Goods, Prisoners' Dilemmas and the International Political Economy
Banning chlorofluorocarbons
The international politics of the environment
The Ingenuity Gap
Redefining Security
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2017 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |