Measuring the effectiveness of environmental dispute settlement efforts

Many authors have addressed the question of how to define effectiveness in environmental dispute settlement (EDS). However, to date, we have no standard, measurable definition of what constitutes effectiveness, and the criteria offered thus far are often more philosophical than practical. This article reviews and integrates the literature on the criteria for effectiveness. It translates these criteria into 26 indicators of effectiveness and presents a pragmatic questionnaire that can be used across a broad array of cases to evaluate the effectiveness of EDS processes.