Global Environmental Problems and International Environmental Agreements

Timothy Swanson and Sam Johnston

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Abstract: The ozone layer is threatened by chemical emissions, the climate is endangered from fossil fuels and deforestation, and global biodiversity is being lost by reason of thousands of years of habitat conversions. Global environmental problems arise out of the accumulated impacts from many years’and many countries’ economic development. In order to address these problems the states of the world must cooperate to manage their development processes together – this is what international environmental agreements are designed to do. But can the world’s countries cooperate successfully to manage global development? How should they manage it? Who should pay for the process, as well as for the underlying problems?

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
ISBN: 9781858987514
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