Hi all, This is likely to be only marginally helpful, but...in the 1990s, when I edited the initial volumes of the Marine Mammal Commission's Compendium of Selected Treaties, International Agreements, and Other Relevant Documents on Marine Resources, Wildlife, and the Environment, and then contributed to its updates, we included 672 international legal documents, both bilateral and multilateral. We were intentionally trying to be inclusive, and every document came in hard copy directly out of the State Department's treaty vault, so we were confident about the numbers. Not all of them were still in force at the time, however - some we included purely for their historical value. The bilateral agreements we included were mostly fisheries agreements, many of which are likely out of date now. I don't remember how many bilateral agreements there were (i.e., what percentage of the total number of documents we included).
The entire five-volume set was subsequently digitized in an interactive format, on this website: http://nsdl.tierit.com/index.htm. Someone also converted the original books to PDF and placed them on the website archive.org. They are available for free download here: http://www.archive.org/details/marinemammalcomm11994wall http://www.archive.org/details/marinemammalcomm00wall Beware, though, the archive.org copies are photographic copies made into pdfs, so they are not really searchable, they are pretty messy-looking, and they are big files (the books total something like 4000 pages). Cheers, Rich -- Richard L. Wallace Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Ursinus College P.O. Box 1000 Collegeville, PA 19426 USA (610) 409-3730 (610) 409-3660 fax [email protected] P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maria Ivanova Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 8:41 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [gep-ed] number of environmental agreements? I was recently wondering too where the "500 international environmental agreements" figure comes from. This is what UNEP cites in many of their publications but there is no citation, no database and I have no idea whether this is the correct number. Ron Mitchell's database is perhaps the best source for real data on this question. Maria Dr. Maria Ivanova John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies University of Massachusetts Boston Tel. +1 617 287 7263 Mobile +1 203 606 4640 [email protected] Director, Global Environmental Governance Project Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy www.environmentalgovernance.org On 4/1/11 5:21 PM, "Radoslav Dimitrov" <[email protected]> wrote: Does anyone know the exact number of multilateral env. agreements today? (Yes, yes, i should know this ...) Radoslav S. Dimitrov, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Western Ontario Social Science Centre London, Ontario Canada N6A 5C2 Tel. +1(519) 661-2111 ext. 85023 Fax +1(519) 661-3904 Email: [email protected] On 2011-04-01, at 4:37 PM, Ronnie Lipschutz wrote: To quote Richard Nixon, "But that would be wrong!" Marc Levy wrote: They want $25 for an educational powerpoint license! I wonder how many educators pay the license. If it were a couple bucks I'd do it. But my interpretation of fair use is that I'm entitled to use the low-resolution image they show in the search results in a lecture for free, so why would I pay $25? On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, VanDeveer, Stacy <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Marc and Dana -- Like others on the list, I imagine, I will blame you both for the hours lost in the New Yorker cartoon archive! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marc Levy Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 3:07 PM To: Dana R Fisher Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gep-ed] Seeking New Yorker Cartoon Thanks, Dana. That was easier than I expected. It didn't show up under the keyword "aliens" but it did come back after searching "discounted" http://www.cartoonbank.com/1986/drat-i-suppose-the-market-has-already-discounted-this-too/invt/116696/ On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Dana R Fisher <[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Hi Marc: You can search on the New Yorker's Cartoon archive...it should be there. Good luck, Dana -- Dana R. Fisher, Ph.D. University of Maryland Department of Sociology 2112 Art-Sociology College Park, MD 20742 [email protected] phone: 301-405-6469 www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/drfisher <http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/drfisher>
