Gerlagh, Reyer; Sterner, Thomas - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 54 (2013) 2, pp. 155-159
Twenty years on from the Rio ’92 conference, we must face the fact that there have been a few successes but more failures. Scientific complexity, uncertainty, short-termism inherent in politics, the free-rider problem, and issues of fairness are part of the explanation for the lack of...