Literature Relevant to Various Lineages

The selections below are intended as starting points for research on a lineage. Keep the following caveats in mind:

  • Literature included is primarily literature known to the Project Director that either analyzes the influence of agreements in the lineage (i.e., investigates "regime effectiveness") or provides useful background.
  • The literature referenced here is QUITE limited. I hope to include literature for more lineages over time and welcome suggestions. This is NOT intended as a comprehensive database of literature but simply as 5 to 10 places to start research.
  • Inclusion of articles in this database are not intended as endorsements of the views or arguments of the authors.
  • Know of literature that is not listed? Please suggest it.
Lineage Full Citation External Source, if any
North Pacific Fur Seals

Barrett, Scott. 2003. "The North Pacific Fur Seal Treaty and the theory of international cooperation." In Environment and statecraft : the strategy of environmental treaty-making, ed. S. Barrett. Oxford: Oxford University Press.19-49.

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North Pacific Fur Seals

Bekiashev, Kamil A., and Vitali V. Serebriakov. 1981. "North Pacific Fur Seal Commission." In International marine organizations: essays on structure and activities, ed. V. V. Serebriakov. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Conrad, J., and T. Bjorndal. 1991. "A bioeconomic model of the harp seal in the Northwest Atlantic." Land Economics 67 (2):158-71.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Daitch, Vicki McKinney. 1991. Natural science and the American government: fur seal management from gilded age to progressive era, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. 1991. "Putting a ceiling on sealing: conservation and cooperation in the international arena, 1909-1911." Environmental History Review 15 (3):27-45.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. 1995. "Scientists, Citizens, and Statesmen: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era." Diplomatic History 19 (3):407-29.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Dorsey, Kurkpatrick. 1995. "Scientists, Citizens, and Statesmen: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era." Diplomatic History 19 (3):407-29.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Eberhardt, L. L. 1990. "A fur seal population model based on age structure data." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Journal Canadien Des Sciences Halieutiques Et Aquatiques 47 (1):122-7.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Gay, James Thomas. 1987. American fur seal diplomacy: the Alaskan fur seal controversy. New York: Peter Lang.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Henke, Janice Scott. 1985. Seal wars. St. John's, Newfoundland: Breakwater.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Jordan, David Starr. 1898. The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific ocean. Washington: Government Printing Office.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Juda, Lawrence. 1996. International law and ocean use management : the evolution of ocean governance. New York: Routledge.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Lembkey, Walter I. 1910. Fur-seal Fisheries of Alaska in 1909. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Martin, Fredericka I. 1946. The hunting of the silver fleece, epic of the fur seal. New York,: Greenberg.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Martin, Fredericka I. 1960. Sea bears: the story of the fur seal. Philadelphia: Chilton Co.
North Pacific Fur Seals

McKelvey, Richard D. 1986. "Fur seal and blue whale: the bioeconomics of extinction." In Applications of control theory in ecology, ed. Y. Cohen. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.57-82.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Mirovitskaya, Natalia, Margaret Clark, and Ronald G. Purver. 1993. "North Pacific fur seals: regime formation as a means of resolving conflict." In Polar politics: creating international environmental regimes, ed. O. R. Young and G. Osherenko. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.22-55.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Murray, Peter. 1988. The Vagabond Fleet: A Chronicle of the North Pacific Sealing Schooner Trade. Victoria, B.C., Canada: Sono Nis.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Slunaker, Ryan. 2005. Managing international common pool resources: an analysis of the international regime history of the Northern Pacific fur seal commons, University of Oregon, Eugene.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Wilen, James E. 1976. "Common property resources and the dynamics of overexploitation : the case of the North Pacific fur seal." Vancouver: Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
North Pacific Fur Seals

York, Anne E., and P. Kozloff. 1987. "On the estimation of numbers of northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, pups born on St. Paul Island, 1980-86." Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 85:367-75.
North Pacific Fur Seals

York, Anne E., R. G. Towell, Rolf R. Ream, Jason D. Baker, and Bruce W. Robson. 2000. "Population assessment, Pribilof Islands, Alaska." In Fur seal investigations: 1998, ed. B. W. Robson. Seattle: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memo NMFS-AFSC-113.7-26.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Young, Oran R. 1981. Natural resources and the state : the political economy of resource management. Berkeley: University of California Press.
North Pacific Fur Seals

Young, Oran R. 2010. "Collapse: the regime for northern fur seals." In Institutional dynamics : emergent patterns in international environmental governance, ed. O. R. Young. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.147-70.