Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding the provision of global public goods. Using a variety of examples to illustrate past successes and failures, he shows how international cooperation, institutional design, and the clever use of incentives can work together to ensure the effective delivery of global public goods.

Business & Money

Barrett, Scott

Economics

Oxford University Press

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making

How did the Montreal Protocol succeed in protecting the earth's ozone layer? Why will the Kyoto Protocol fail to materially dampen global climate change? Are treaties really needed? Can they be made to work better? This book develops a theory to answer these questions--one that integrates the approaches used in economics, political science, international law, and game theory. It also applies the theory to some of the world's most important environmental problems.

Environmental problems like global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion can only be remedied if states cooperate with one another. But sovereign states usually care only about their own interests. So states must somehow restructure the incentives to make cooperation pay. This is what treaties are meant to do. A few treaties, such as the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, succeed. Most, however, fail to alter the state behavior appreciably. This book develops theory that explains both the successes and the failures. In particular, the book explains when treaties are needed, why some work better than others, and how treaty design can be improved. The best treaties strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the environment, and the theory developed in this book shows how treaties can do this. The theory integrates a number of disciplines, including economics, political science, international law, negotiation analysis, and game theory. It also offers a coherent and consistent approach. The essential assumption is that treaties be self-enforcing that is, individually rational, collectively rational and fair. The book applies the theory to a number of environmental problems. It provides information on more than three-hundred treaties, and analyses a number of case studies in detail. These include depletion of the ozone layer, whaling, pollution of the Rhine, acid rain, over-fishing, pollution of the oceans, and global climate change. The essential lesson of the book is that treaties should not just tell countries what to do. Treaties must make it in the interests of countries to behave differently. That is, they must restructure the underlying game. Most importantly, they must create incentives for states to participate in a treaty and for parties to comply.

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding the provision of global public goods. Using a variety of examples to illustrate past successes and failures, he shows how international cooperation, institutional design, and the clever use of incentives can work together to ensure the effective delivery of global public goods.

This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems (to include families, local communities, national economies, and the world as a whole) and natural systems (critical ecosystems, forests, water resources, mineral deposits, pollution, fisheries, and the Earth's climate). Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and resources become or remain overexploited. With contributions by some of the world's leading economists, including five recipients of the Nobel Prize in Economics, in addition to scholars based in developing countries, this volume offers a unique perspective on the environmental issues that matter most to developing countries.

Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta

Mäler, Karl-Göran

Maskin, Eric S.

Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser"s Vail-McDonald Operation covers the fascinating history of northwest railroad logging-including the Chehalis Western and Curtis, Milburn, & Eastern- as only Weyerhaeuser could do it. Starting with steam power and evolving to Diesel power, Weyerhaeuser harvested and transported logs for some 65 years via their Vail and McDonald operations. Authors Frank Telewski and Scott Barrett capture the story through detailed research and in depth interviews with many Weyerhaeuser employees who share their experiences of life and work in the woods. Thanks to noted northwest logging photographers Clark and Darius Kinsey, you'll find a host of imagery inside, many never before published, including Shay, Climax,Heisler, and rod locomotives- featuring the second largest logging mallet ever built. Also depicted are the powerful steam donkeys and imposing tower skidders Weyerhaeuser used to harvest the massive timbers that grew in Southwestern Washington State. Additional photography-371 in all-from noted photographers such as Harold Hill, Al Farrow, and many others along with 10 detailed drawings and 65 maps, illustrate the breadth and depth of Vail and McDonald. This book is a must for any logging enthusiast, model railroader, or forest historian.\nAlthough currently out-of-print the authors are considering publishing a revised edition with recently discovered new materials.

Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser's Vail and Mcdonald Operation

History

Telewski, Frank W.

Americas

Oso Pub

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Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making

Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta

Logging Railroads of Weyerhaeuser's Vail and Mcdonald Operation