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- Title
Tracking Twenty-Four Years of Discussions About Transparency in International Marine Governance: Where Do We Stand?
- Authors
Ardron, Jeff; Clark, Nichola; Seto, Katherine; Brooks, Cassandra; Currie, Duncan; Gilman, Eric
- Abstract
Transparency in governance has been recognized as a principal tenet of democracy and a primary objective of governing actors for centuries. Discussions and analyses of the concept of transparency have been pervasive in the literature on international and multinational institutions. But to what degree is transparency being discussed by those international institutions charged with the management of marine resources? To gauge this discussion, this study tracked the use of transparency terminology in annual meeting reports of fourteen global and regional marine treaty bodies over twenty-four years, from 1990 to 2013. The study considered the contexts in which transparency was discussed, and whether transparency was associated with mandatory, obligatory, or voluntary language. The results suggest that transparency has been discussed in highly varying ways and degrees amongst international marine bodies for at least twenty years, covering a xuide breadth of topics, with some recurrent themes. Following an initial rise, transparency-related discussions leveled off and have remained relatively consistent for the last fifteen years. Obligatory wording such as ".should" was most often used in these discussions. While it is likely that the international political stage has influenced the way that international maritime organizations discuss transparency, within marine institutions these discussions have remained relatively static. Furthermore, institutional documents reveal little evidence of a link between discussions of transparency and global commitments.
- Subjects
MARINE resource management; MARINE resources conservation laws; INTERNATIONAL Maritime Organization; ORGANIZATIONAL transparency; MARINE resources development
- Publication
Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 2014, Vol 33, Issue 2, p167
- ISSN
0892-7138
- Publication type
Article