CCMS: The Environmental Connection
| DOI | 10.1177/002070207402900206 |
| Author | Patrick Kyba |
| Published date | 01 June 1974 |
| Date | 01 June 1974 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
PATRICK
KYBA
CCMS:
the
environmental
connection
The
Committee
on
the
Challenges
of
Modem
Society
(ccMs)
is
the
environmental
agency
of
the
North Atlantic
Treaty
Organiza-
tion.
It
was
established
by
the
NATO
Council
in
November
1969
to
provide
the alliance
with
'a
social
dimension
to
deal
with
our
concern
for
the
quality
of
life
in
this
final
third
of
the
twentieth
century," and
was
set
a
number
of objectives.
The
Council di-
rected
the
cciis
to
examine methods
of
improving
exchanges
of
views
and
environmental
experiences
amongst
members
of
the
alliance,
to
consider
specific
environmental
problems
with
the
object
of
stimulating
action to
treat them
by
member-govern-
ments,
to
perform
various
tasks
aimed
at
improving
the
existing
system
of
international environmental regulation,
and
to
co-
ordinate
the
efforts of
NATO
members
in this
area
of
concern.
2
The
Council
intended
the
Committee
to
be
action-oriented
rather
than
deliberative,
and
adopted
the
pilot
project
concept
as
its
principal
operating
procedure.
Through
this
device
any
NATO
country
wishing
to
investigate
a
specific
environmental
problem
is
encouraged
to
bring
its proposal
to
one
of
the
two
plenary
sessions
held
each
year
to test
the
reaction
of
the
other
members
of
the Committee and to
learn
if
any
other
country
wants
to par-
ticipate
in
the project.
If
the
response
is
favourable,
the
pilot
Associate
Professor,
Department
of
Political
Studies,
University
of
Guelph.
One
of
the
first
ccms
Fellows,
the
author
is
at
present
preparing
a
book
on
Canada's
role
in
international
environmental
affairs.
i
President
R.M.
Nixon,
quoted
in
J.R. Huntley,
Man's Environment
and
the
Atlantic
Alliance
(Brussels:
NATO
Information
Service
ig7i),
p
9.
2
North
Atlantic
Council,
'Collection
of
Official
Texts
Published
for
the
Committee
on
the
Challenges
of Modem
Society
of
NATO,'
OCMS
no
54,
PP
2-3.
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