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Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success?
The Commission for the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is the body responsible for the conservation and management of most species in the Southern Ocean. The Convention mandates that decisions be made by consensus agreement of its Members. This approach has been l...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10784-021-09561-4 |
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description | The Commission for the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is the body responsible for the conservation and management of most species in the Southern Ocean. The Convention mandates that decisions be made by consensus agreement of its Members. This approach has been largely successful in delivering strong management decisions across both complex issues and widely ranging national interests. However, recent failures to progress the implementation of a network of marine protected areas or to agree any concrete response actions to climate impacts raise concerns about its effectiveness. This paper reviews the level of uptake of Member-driven proposals and then examines examples of proposals that were not resolved within the usual three years to analyse the processes utilised by Members to find resolution. It concludes that CCAMLR has been successful in reaching agreements when focusing on fisheries management but less so on issues within its broader conservation mandate, such as area protection for biodiversity purposes or non-fishery management focused scientific study, or for issues that are perceiv ed to extend the competency of the Convention. It notes that CCAMLR lacks operational mechanisms to facilitate agreement in the absence of compromise text or when one or two Members cannot accept a proposal. |
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spelling | pubmed-89891182022-04-11 Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? Goldsworthy, Lynda Int Environ Agreem Original Paper The Commission for the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources is the body responsible for the conservation and management of most species in the Southern Ocean. The Convention mandates that decisions be made by consensus agreement of its Members. This approach has been largely successful in delivering strong management decisions across both complex issues and widely ranging national interests. However, recent failures to progress the implementation of a network of marine protected areas or to agree any concrete response actions to climate impacts raise concerns about its effectiveness. This paper reviews the level of uptake of Member-driven proposals and then examines examples of proposals that were not resolved within the usual three years to analyse the processes utilised by Members to find resolution. It concludes that CCAMLR has been successful in reaching agreements when focusing on fisheries management but less so on issues within its broader conservation mandate, such as area protection for biodiversity purposes or non-fishery management focused scientific study, or for issues that are perceiv ed to extend the competency of the Convention. It notes that CCAMLR lacks operational mechanisms to facilitate agreement in the absence of compromise text or when one or two Members cannot accept a proposal. Springer Netherlands 2022-04-07 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8989118/ /pubmed/35431700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10784-021-09561-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Goldsworthy, Lynda Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title | Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title_full | Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title_fullStr | Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title_full_unstemmed | Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title_short | Consensus decision-making in CCAMLR: Achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
title_sort | consensus decision-making in ccamlr: achilles’ heel or fundamental to its success? |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8989118/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10784-021-09561-4 |
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