Good treaties for assessing treaty effectiveness

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TOPIC Signed Agreement
Title
Read the treaty to identify what the rules required member states to do.		 Secretariat
Find out more about the treaty		 Members
Identify countries that are members		 Readings
Articles, chapters, and books to get you started		 Lineage
Identify related treaties, protocols, or amendments		 NOTES Dataset file and
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Aral Sea 3/26/1993 Agreement On Joint Activities In Addressing The Aral Sea And The Zone
Around The Sea Crisis, Improving The Environment, And Ensuring The Social And
Economic Development Of The Aral Sea Region		 International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea Members Articles Aral Sea See
lineage for related agreements. Challenging data analysis on this one.		 AralSea-Data.xlsx
Fish - Halibut 3/2/1953 Convention For The Preservation Of The Halibut Fishery Of The Northern
Pacific Ocean And Bering Sea		 International Pacific Halibut Commission Members Articles North Pacific Halibut See
lineage for related agreements		 FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; HALIBUT tab
Fish - Northeast Atlantic 11/18/1998 Convention On Future Multilateral Cooperation In Northeast Atlantic
Fisheries		 Secretariat Web Site Members Articles North-East Atlantic Fisheries   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; NEAFC tab
Fish -Northwest Atlantic 10/24/1978 Convention On Future Multilateral Cooperation In The Northwest Atlantic
Fisheries		 Secretariat Web Site Members Articles Northwest Atlantic Fisheries   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; NAFO tab
Fish - Pollock 6/16/1994 Convention On The Conservation And Management Of Pollock Resources In The
Central Bering Sea		 Pollock
Scientific and Technical Committee		 Members   Pollock Conservation   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; POLLOCK tab
Fish - Salmon North Atlantic  3/2/1982 Convention For The Conservation Of Salmon In The North Atlantic Ocean North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization Members Articles NASCO   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xls; SALMON tab
Fish - Salmon Pacfic  2/11/1992 Convention For The Conservation Of Anadromous Stocks In The North Pacific
Ocean		 North Pacific
Anadromous Fish Commission		 Members Articles North Pacific Ocean Fisheries There
is a Pacific Salmon Treaty but this is the easier one to assess.		 FisheriesTreaties-Data.xls; SALMON tab
Fish - Tuna Atlantic 5/14/1966 International Convention For The Conservation Of Atlantic Tunas International Commission For The
Conservation Of Atlantic Tunas		 Members Articles Atlantic Tuna   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Fish - Tuna Eastern Pacific 5/31/1949 Convention For The Establishment Of An Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission		 Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Members Articles Inter-American Tropical Tuna   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Fish - Tuna Indian Ocean  11/25/1993 Agreement For The Establishment Of The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission Indian Ocean Tuna
Commission		 Members Articles Indian Ocean Tuna   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Fish - Tuna Southern Bluefin  5/10/1993 Convention For The Conservation Of Southern Bluefin Tuna Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
(CCSBT)		 Members Articles Southern Bluefin Tuna   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Fish - Tuna West/Central Pacific  9/5/2000 Convention on the Conservation and Management of the Highly Migratory Fish
Stocks of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean		 Western and Central Pacific Ocean Fisheries Commission Members Articles Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Western Central Pacific   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Fish - Tuna Western Indian  6/19/1991 Western Indian Ocean Tuna Organization Convention Western
Indian Ocean Tuna Organization		 Members   Western Indian Ocean Tuna   FisheriesTreaties-Data.xlsx; TUNA tab
Hazardous Wastes 3/22/1989 Convention On The Control Of Transboundary Movements Of Hazardous Wastes
And Their Disposal		 Secretariat of the Basel Convention Members Articles Hazardous Wastes There
is an agreement on hazardous waste trade in Africa and one in Central America
but data is better for the global (Basel) treaty. The 1999 Protocol to Basel
may be worth assessing too.		 HazardousWaste-Data.xlsx; IMPORTS and EXPORTS tabe
Mammals - Fur Seals 7/7/1911 Convention Respecting Measures For The Preservation And Protection Of The
Fur Seals In The North Pacific Ocean		 North
Pacific Fur Seal Commission		 Members Articles North Pacific Fur Seals There
are other agreements on fur seals but this is the easiest to assess.		 FurSeal-Data.xlsx
Mammals - Polar Bears 11/15/1973 Agreement On Conservation Of Polar Bears Norwegian Ministry for the Environment Members Articles Polar Bear There
are other agreements on polar bears but this is the easiest to assess.		 PolarBear-Data.xlsx
Pollution, Air - Nitrogen oxides 10/31/1988 Protocol Concerning The Control Of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides Or Their
Transboundary Fluxes To The Convention On Long-Range Transboundary Air
Pollution		 LRTAP Secretariat of
UNECE		 Members Articles LRTAP   LRTAP-Data.xlsx; NITROGEN OXIDES tab
Pollution, Air - Sulfur dioxide 7/8/1985 Protocol On The Reduction Of Sulphur Emissions Or Their Transboundary
Fluxes By At Least 30 Per Cent To The Convention On Long-Range Transboundary
Air Pollution		 LRTAP Secretariat of
UNECE		 Members Articles LRTAP   LRTAP-Data.xlsx; SULFUR DIOXIDES tab
Pollution, River - Rhine 12/3/1976 Convention On The Protection Of The Rhine Against Pollution By Chlorides International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine Members Articles Rhine Pollution This
is a challenging treaty to assess the data on.		 Rhine-Data.xlsx
Tropical Timber 11/18/1983 International Tropical Timber Agreement International Tropical Timber Organization Members Articles International Tropical Timber There
are two later treaties that sought to improve this treaty, and one could
assess whether those improvements worked well. 		 Timber-Data.xlsx

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