Public Economics and International Environmental Policy: The Case of Ozone Layer Preservation

David S. Kelleher

International Review of Public Administration, 2001, vol. 6, issue 2, 71-82

Abstract: While there is growing recognition that international environmental protection constitutes a collective action problem, what is less widely recognized is not only how the objective features of the environmental issue but the dynamics of the policymaking process shape the nature of the collective action problem. How the collective action problem is structured of course impinges critically on the prospects for successfully reaching international agreement to address the problem. Drawing on the fundamental insights of the policy analysis and public economics literatures, the paper seeks to explain in game-theoretic terms the essence of the challenge facing countries in trying to forge agreement to address environmental issues. It points to the critical role of private benefits that are jointly produced in the effort to produce the public benefits of global environmental protection. Focusing on the international effort to protect the ozone layer, the analysis may shed light on why this instance of international policymaking has been widely seen as successful, while the international effort to avert climate change has been less so.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2001.10804981

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