Antarctica, the high seas and deep seabed, the atmosphere, and space are increasingly accessible - and exploited - resource domains. Collectively known as the global commons, they represent a new and profound challenge for international law and institutions. In The Global Commons, Susan Buck considers the unique physical, legal, management, and policy problems associated with these areas. The book is a clear, useful introduction to the subject that will be of interest to general readers as well as to students in international relations, international law, and environmental law and policy.
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This is a very informative and up-to-date book which makes me read right to the end, without stopping. Each chapter prompts me to read the next one. It deals very in depth about the current geopolitical issues affecting our world today - the air, the sea, the space and technology. It also gives a good case study about Antartica. very few geopolitical books that I have read has made such a deep analysis on such immediate issues. Not too intimidating for the reader who has little geopolitical know-how because of its explanation of current concepts and definitions (in the first chapter) as well as a glossary of key terms used.
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Susan Buck's book is a good overview of the conecptal framework associated with the growing awarness of The Global Commons. While the book covers a lot of subject matter setting forth international regime formation and the framework for analysis lightly, it does give a well-informed overview of the commons relating to space, the atmosphere, the oceans, and Antarica. This book would make a great political science text read in undergraduate colleges and universities. In fact, relevance is quite timely. I trust that this book is being read by students throughout the United States today. It certainly should be.
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"That sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world": this is how in 1776 English jurist Sir William Blackstone described the right of property. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
common pool resource regimes, outer space regime, airspace regime, global commons regimes, nested enterprises, telecommunications regime, ocean regime, deep seabed minerals, spacefaring nations, space law, resource domain, international commons, common pool resources, treaty system, chloride oxide, modern international law, seabed mining, geostationary orbits, procedural component Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, New York, Great Britain, Elinor Ostrom, Managing the Frozen South, Ozone Diplomacy, Soviet Union, International Telecommunication Union, New Zealand, Environmental Science, Montreal Protocol, Seventh Continent, World War, American Space Law, Antarctica Prior, Communication Satellites, European Community, Suggested Reading, International Geophysical Year, London Convention, Rescue Agreement, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press New!
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common pool resource regimes, outer space regime, airspace regime, global commons regimes, nested enterprises, telecommunications regime, ocean regime, deep seabed minerals, spacefaring nations, space law, resource domain, international commons, common pool resources, treaty system, chloride oxide, modern international law, seabed mining, geostationary orbits, procedural component Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, New York, Great Britain, Elinor Ostrom, Managing the Frozen South, Ozone Diplomacy, Soviet Union, International Telecommunication Union, New Zealand, Environmental Science, Montreal Protocol, Seventh Continent, World War, American Space Law, Antarctica Prior, Communication Satellites, European Community, Suggested Reading, International Geophysical Year, London Convention, Rescue Agreement, Cambridge University Press, Clarendon Press, Harvard University Press New!
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- International Law and the Environment by P. W. Birnie on 10 pages
- Hugo Grotius and International Relations (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Hedley Bull on 6 pages
- The Freedom of the Seas by Hugo Grotius on 6 pages
- The Seventh Continent: Antarctica in a Resource Age (RFF Press) by Professor Deborah Shapley on 6 pages
- Communication Satellites: Power Politics in Space (Artech House Telecom Library) by Larry F. Martinez on 5 pages
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- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollier in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Science and Policy in Natural Resource Management: Understanding system complexity by Helen E. Allison in Back Matter
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