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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Organizing the Commons: Definitions and Assumptions -- Definitions and Concepts -- International and Global Commons -- International Regime Formation -- General Assumptions -- The Plan for this Book -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 2: A Framework for Analysis -- Law and History -- Development of Western Law -- The Property Rights Paradigm -- National Sovereignty -- The Common Heritage of Mankind -- Analytic Framework -- Regime Theory -- Institutional Analysis -- Levels of Institutional Choice -- Design Principles -- Multiple-Use, Multiple-User Commons -- Summary -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Antarctica -- Early Exploration -- Territorial Claims -- Toward the Antarctic Treaty System -- The Impact of Scientific Communities -- The Antarctic Treaty System -- Administration -- North-South Issues -- The Role of Interest Groups -- Discussion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Oceans -- History of the Oceans and Territorial Seas -- The Oceans -- The Territorial Seas -- United Nations Conferences on the Law of the Sea -- UNCLOS I -- UNCLOS II -- UNCLOS III -- The Deep Seabed Mineral Regime -- Living Resources -- Marine Pollution -- Discussion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Atmosphere -- The Airspace Regime -- Atmospheric Pollution -- Acid Deposition -- Climate Change -- Ozone Depletion -- Discussion -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Outer Space and Telecommunications -- Outer Space Regime -- Sovereignty in Outer Space -- Development of the Outer Space Regime -- Military Effects on the Space Regime -- The Role of Special Interest Groups -- COPUOS and the Treaty Regime -- Treaties -- Outer Space Treaty -- Rescue Agreement -- Liability Convention -- Registration Convention -- Moon Treaty.

Marx is reputed to have said that "there is nothing so practical as a good theory." Seventy-odd years of Soviet theorizing have left little useful practical theory behind, as demonstrated by the transformations currently taking place in Russia's borderlands. As the Soviet Union crumbles, the successor states face a unique and troubling situation. For over 70 years, their administrative structures have been centralized; their economies, transportation and communications systems, and the physical infrastructure all controlled from Moscow under a coherent ideological regime. The successor states find themselves adrift ideologically and administratively, but the centralized physical infrastructure remains.How are these states to design new administrative structures? How are they to cope with the utter failure of their theoretical principles? How may they cooperate in the use of the physical systems while establishing their political independence? Soviet administrative theory—the "scientific theory of socialism" as it was called—has been unable to provide even the most basic guidance for the process, and western administrative theory is not equipped to address the special problems of the new states. The insights of the neo-institutionalists can provide guidelines for these urgent problems.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Roots of Moral Austerity in Environmental Policy Discourse -- Part I. Moral Principles and Environmental Policy: Basic Issues and Dilemmas -- Issue 1: Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle? Science as a Substitute for Moral Principle -- Science Is No Substitute for Moral Principle -- Issue 2: Environmental Justice without Social Justice? Why Environmental Thought and Action Must Include Considerations of Social Justice -- Environmental Justice: Private Preference or Public Necessity? -- Issue 3: Nature Has Only an Instrumental Value Sustainability: Descriptive or Performative? -- Are Environmental Values All Instrumental? -- Issue 4: Intrinsic Value Implies No Use and a Threat to Democratic Governance A Practical Concept of Nature's Intrinsic Value -- On Intrinsic Value and Environmental Ethics -- Part II. Case Studies in Sustainable Environmental Policy and Law -- Introduction -- The Subnational Role in Sustainable Development: Lessons from American States and Canadian Provinces -- Sustainable Development and Natural Hazards Mitigation -- Sustainable Governance -- Sustainability in the United States: Legal Tools and Initiatives -- Sustainable Development and the Use of Public Lands -- The Impact of Political Institutions on Preservation of U.S. and Canadian National Parks -- Global Environmental Accountability: The Missing Link in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development? -- Part III. Moral Principles and Sustainable Environmental Policy: An Analysis of Ends and Means -- Introduction -- Issue 1: Science and Sustainability Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Values -- Saving All the Parts: Science and Sustainability -- Discussion -- Issue 2: Environmental Policy, Sustainability, and Social Justice Why Environmental Public Policy Analysis Must Include Explicit Normative Considerations: Reflections on Seven Illustrations -- Sustainability and Environmental Justice: A Necessary Connection -- Discussion -- Issue 3: A Sustainable Environment as an Instrumental Value? The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Environment -- Why Not Foxy Hedgehogs? -- Discussion -- Issue 4: A Sustainable Environment as an Intrinsic Value? Sustainability: Restricting the Policy Debate -- Comments on Sustainability -- Discussion -- Conclusion: Democratic Competence, Accountability, and Education in the Twenty-first Century -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index