International Environmental Negotiations by Carlo Carraro

International Environmental Negotiations by Carlo Carraro

Much environmental deterioration - the greenhouse effect, deleption of the ozone layer and acid rain - has an intrinsic international dimension. The lack of a supra-national authority requires that countries agree on the decision to co-operate for pollution control. Hence, negotiations on international environmental issues need to be approached through appropriate policy strategies. This book presents new and important papers which examine international environmental negotiations and agreements seeking to protect the global environment. Policy analysis is performed within a game-theoretic strategic framework. Issues discussed include: existence, size and environmental impacts of self-enforcing agreements, the role of an arbitrator in environmental negotiations, the problems of interactions between environmental and trade and industrial polices, the influence of uncertainty on negotiations and agreements, the role of myopia of negotiators and of asymmetric interests between developed and less developed countries. This book not only presents current debates but also provides stimuli for further research. International Environmental Negotiations will be of special interest to students, academics and professional environmentalists as well as policymakers.

'The volume provides an interesting collection of game theoretical models applied to international environmental problems and includes a number of new extensions of more basic models' -- Wolfram Kagi, Kyklos'. . . this volume is a very welcome addition to the literature, especially for those analysts working at the formal game modelling end of the spectrum.'– Richard Blackhurst, Economic Journal

Edited by Carlo Carraro, President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and President Emeritus, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy

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ISBN 13	9781858985244
ISBN 10	1858985242
Title	International Environmental Negotiations
Author	Carlo Carraro
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Year published	1997-06-12
Number of pages	208
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