BEYOND THE STATE: BUILDING REGIMES FOR SPECIES PROTECTION

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The Hawke Research Institute, University of South Australia

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To those with an ecological standpoint the state system has often been a foe of environmental

management. Sovereignty and state determination of environmental management are not

encumbered by any obligation to consider neighbouring countries or the world as a whole. This

remains a major impediment to dealing with environmental issues on the temporal and spatial scale

necessary to address many problems (Wapner 1996). Issues such as ozone depletion and global

warming are amongst the highest profile of contemporary problems, but increasing focus is being

turned to species conservation and how this can be considered within debates over conservation of

the global commons.