The economics of international agreements for the protection of environmental and agricultural resources


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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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Contents


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