Humans moving from rural to urban areas of the country allow people to useresources that wouldnt have been available if local sustainable lifestyles had beenmaintained. And second, as the human population drastically increases, resources neededper capita increases, consequentially adding stress on the environment. 1 As need forresources increased, so did technologies in transportation, which allowed for extensivelogging in tropical rainforest. The degradation of such habitats continues to result in theloss of an enormous amount of species. Scarcity of natural resources has posed a largeproblem not only on the earth, but has created conflict among countries. Disagreementsaccording to the specific details of environmental problems and how to solve them havecreated problems in international relations.The intractable difference between all countries who express concern is theirsovereignty. The dominant tradition within International Relations is state-centric,centered around concepts of state sovereignty and the beliefs that states are the primaryactors in international affairs and that international affairs and international politics arelargely driven by states pressing their interest.2 Environmental problems usually affectmore than one state and pose limitations on a states sovereignty. Let us take the exampleof biodiversity. In 1992, nations gathered in Rio De Janeiro for the Earth Summit.Several nations brought their environmental concerns including biological diversity to thetable , and over one hundred government representatives signed the Convention onBiological Diversity. Countries who sign an international convention may have full intentions ofcarring out the purposed plan of action but once that moment of compliance comes, ittends to be more difficult to comply than expected. Economic or technologicaldisadvantages may limit a countries capacity to comply with original goals set by thetreaty. Even if states sign t...
