Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty‐making

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 that states have to exploit the environment. This book will have interdisciplinary appeal to economists, political scientists and environmentalists.