Governing international regime complexes through multi-level governance mechanisms: lessons from water, forestry and migration policy
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Why do international regime complexes develop? Are hard-law regimes effective in integrating regime complexes for international water resources management? Are there other alternatives? This article introduces international regime complexes and argues that these form a superior alternative to hard law and traditional global integrated regimes for many global policy issues. Failure of hard law to overcome fragmentation and generate integrated policy outcomes in international forestry, migration and water resource management is presented. Additional insights are drawn from two successful cases of water management in North America to argue for international regime complexes for better multi-level governance at the regional level.
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Oceans governance extends beyond national boundaries and includes multiple policy domains.
“Oceans governance extends beyond national boundaries and includes multiple policy domains (Shivakoti et al., 2021;Stokke, 2013;Young, 1996).”
From Institutional navigation of oceans governance: Lessons from Russia and the United States Indigenous multi-level whaling governance in the Arctic (2022) · cites this paper as Shivakoti et al., 2021
Within multi-level oceans governance systems, national laws and policies are critical linkages between the international regime and communities.
“Within multi-level oceans governance systems, national laws and policies are critical linkages between the international regime and communities (Shivakoti et al., 2021;Stokke, 2013).”
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- Authors
- Shivakoti, R., Howlett, M., Fernandez, V., & Nair, S.
- Affiliations
- International Organization for Migration (CH)
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- Corresponding author
- Shivakoti, Richa
- Venue
- International Journal of Water Resources Development
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-10-02
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 658-675
- ISSN
- 0790-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0648
- OpenAlex
- W2978191249
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 4.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Water Resources Development (publishedVersion)
- National University of Singapore (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › International Relations and Foreign Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › International Environmental Law and Policies
- Keywords
- multi-level governance, hard law, international migration policy, policy fragmentation, regional governance
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