Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making

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(2003), "Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 4 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2003.24904dae.003

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making

Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making

Scott BarrettOxford University PressFebruary 2003446 pp.ISBN 0199257337US$ 39.95

Environment and Statecraft develops a theory of how states can cooperate in protecting their shared environmental resources –resources such as the ozone layer, the blue fin tuna, the Aral Sea, the entirety of the earth’s biodiversity, and the global climate. Scott Barrett explains why the international treaty is the primary device for doing this and why to succeed it must strategically manipulate the incentives states have to exploit the environment. This book will have interdisciplinary appeal to economists, political scientists and environmentalists.