Although past research has emphasized the importance of international regimes for
international governance, systematic assessments of regime effects are missing. This article …

This article outlines the theoretical problematique and some empirical knowledge regarding
the impacts of global environmental change on the nation state; thereby it also introduces …

The'Precautionary Principle'has sparked the central controversy over European and US risk
regulation. The Reality of Precaution is the most comprehensive study to go beyond …

This paper addresses the subject of self-enforcing international environmental agreements
(IEAs). The standard model of IEAs is adapted to include uncertainty in environmental costs …

The last few decades have been marked by the emergence of a number of environmental
protection regimes in the international arena. We know little about the effectiveness of these …

One of the most significant events in natural resource management in southern Africa has
been the integration of environmentalism into development policy. An outcome of the rise of …

In this paper I address the question of how uncertainty about damage costs and the
possibility of resolving that uncertainty in the future affects the incentives for countries to join …

Transnational externalities (eg transboundary pollution, trade, contagious diseases and
terrorism) warrant coordination and cooperation between governments, but this proves often …

Economic theorists of international environmental cooperation and regime theorists who
focus on the environment ask the same two basic research questions: why does …

We propose a conceptual framework to explain why some technologies are more difficult to
govern than others in global environmental governance. We start from the observation that …