Scott Barrett
London Business School and Centre for Social and Economic
Research on the Global Environment
A report prepared for the Policy Analysis Division FAO Economic and Social Department
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Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. International agreements concerning
food and agriculture
Plant protection
Control of the desert locust
Forestry and aquaculture
Fisheries conservation
Marine mammal protection
Animal welfare
Bird protection
Terrestrial species
Endangered species protection
Nature conservation
Pollution control
Chapter 3. International cooperation in environmental protection
The prisoners' dilemma
The self-enforcing IEA
IEAs as repeated games
Biological diversity
Summary
Chapter 4. International environmental
agreements reconsidered
References