"Adaptive Governance is a significant book for students of international regimes, whether they care about fisheries or not, because it provides a new conceptualization of how regulatory policy can vary so much across issues, even within a single multilateral regime." —Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University"Webster presents a superb analysis of international fisheries regulation, combining keen political and economic insights into why states take the positions they do and why successful international fisheries management has been so hard to come by. Her rich analysis of efforts to manage Atlantic fisheries demonstrates the value of her vulnerability response framework to generate theoretically sophisticated but empirically accurate insights. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand international fisheries or global environmental governance." —Ronald Mitchell, Department of Political Science, University of Oregon"Mankind has been winning the battle of technology against fish, with the result that one after another of the world's fisheries has become seriously stressed by overfishing. This on-going process has been aggravated by new entrants, mainly developing countries, into open-ocean fishing. Remarkably, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has slowed or in the case of two species even reversed this relentless predation. In this informative, detailed study of the management of seven highly migrating species, Webster explains how the evolving interests of the leading fishing states have gradually led to stiffening both the regulations and their enforcement of open water fishing in the Atlantic." —Richard Cooper, Department of Economics, Harvard University"This book is a noteworthy contribution to understanding the role of regimes as institutions attempting to respond to the complexities of global environmental change." —Edward L. Miles, School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington
