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"This book examines the challenges of sustaining meaningful cooperation among countries striving to manage global climate change through international environmental agreements. Through the perspectives of leading international scholars from multiple disciplines, readers of the book will gain an understanding of how agreements are negotiated, the strength and weaknesses of previous climate agreements and how a more effective future climate agreement can be designed"--
List of contents
PART I: CONFLICT: BARRIERS TO A NEW AGREEMENT 1. Observations from the climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa 2. Does fairness matter in international environmental governance 3. Formation of climate agreements: The role of uncertainty and learning 4. Burden sharing in global climate governance 5. Negotiating to avoid ‘gradual’ versus ‘dangerous’ climate change: An experimental test of two prisoners’ dilemmas 6. U.S. climate policy and the shale gas revolution PART 2:RESOLUTION: PATHS TOWARD A NEW AGREEMENT 7. The role of inequality in international environmental agreements with endogenous minimum participation requirements 8. Climate policy coordination through institutional design: an experimental examination 9. Improving the design of international environmental agreements 10. Managing dangerous anthropogenic interference: decision rules for climate governance 11. Exclusive approaches to climate governance: More effective than the UNFCCC? 12. Bottom up or top down PART 3:GOVERNANCE: STRUCTURES FOR A NEW AGREEMENT 13. Rethinking the legal form and principles of a new climate agreement 14. Technology agreements with heterogenous countries 15. International guidance for border carbon adjustments to address carbon leakage 16. The effect of enforcement in the presence of strong reciprocity: an application of agent-based modeling 17. EU emissions trading: achievements, challenges, solutions 18. The EU’s quest for linked carbon markets: turbulence and headwind
About the author
Todd L. Cherry is a Professor of Economics at Appalachian State University, USA, and at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO). He currently holds the Rasmuson Chair of Economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage, USA.
Jon Hovi is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, Norway, and at CICERO.
David M. McEvoy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University, USA.
