International Environmental Negotiations Strategic Policy Issues

About this book

This work presents important papers which examine international environmental negotiations and agreements. Issues discussed include: the problems of interactions between environmental policies and trade and industrial policies; the role of "issue linkage" in securing stability in environmental agreements; the role of an arbitrator in environmental negtiations where no supra-national authority exists, the consequences for the existence of self-enforcing agreements; and the relationship between environmental negotiations on trade liberalization and R&D co-operation.

Contents

Heterogenous international environmental agreements, S. Barrett; burden-sharing and coalition stablilty in environmental negotiations with asymmetric countries, M.Botteon and C.Carraro; international negotiations and dispute resolution mechanisms - the case of environmental negotiations, P.Jehiel and O. Compte; R&D co-operation and the stability of international environmental agreements, C. Carraro and D. Siniscalco; R&D spillovers, R&D co-operation, innovation and international environmental agreements, Y. Katsoulacos; international environmental agreements and asymmetric information, O. Chillemi; the interaction between international environmental and trade policies, M. Le Breton; measuring benefits and damages from Co2 emmisions and international agreements to slow down greenhouse warming, A. Yiannaka and A. Xepapadeas; the stability of international environmental coalitions with farsighted countries - some theoretical observations, G. Ecchia and M. Mariotti.

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