ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a community systems perspective on studying organisational networks and their linkages. It examines the ozone-depleting substance information exchange networks that constitute the ozone-layer regime. The chapter discusses the Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP) as the bridging network that increasingly provided policy-relevant information to the parties as well as to the other networks in the regime. It shows that the spanning activities of the TEAP lent cohesion to the regime system, transforming it into a regulatory community. The ozone regime is a social system consisting of a set of networks established for the common purpose of restoring the protective ozone layer around the Earth. The ozone policy network is composed of the official units called for in the Montreal Protocol, including the parties, the Protocol's Executive Committee, its Secretariat in Nairobi and the Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund in Montreal.
