This chapter presents the theory of international environmental agreements (IEAs). It
explains what treaties do (or should do); when and why they succeed or fail; and whether …

In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to
measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to …

First, the paper lays out the fun-damental assumptions underlying the game theoretical
analysis of international environmental problems. Second it summarises important findings …

In recent years, the number of publications that analyze the formation and stability of
international environmental agreements (IEAs) using the method of game theory has sharply …

This paper examines the concept of global public goods (GPGs) and in that context explores
the extent of aid (ODA) presently being diverted to GPG provision and whether such …

This paper analyses stability of coalitions for greenhouse gas abatement under different
sharing rules applied to the gains from cooperation. We use a 12-region model to examine …

We study the impact of altruism on the stability of international climate agreements. We
consider the standard two-stage game for the analysis of international environmental …

Many researchers have found game theory a useful method for analyzing international
environmental problems. However, game theory has been criticized for being too theoretical …

This paper investigates a second-best trade agreement between two countries that takes the
distortion arising from their non-coordinated environmental policies into consideration. In a …

Almost all international environmental agreements include a minimum participation rule.
Under such rule an agreement becomes legally binding if and only if a certain threshold in …