Der anthropogene Treibhauseffekt gilt weithin als das vorrangige Umweltproblem unserer Zeit. Da die Folgen einer Klimaänderung eine globale Dimension besitzen und kein Staat im Alleingang den Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen genügend senken kann, ist politisches Handeln auf internationaler Ebene...

Of all the expected impacts of climate change, the most significant is likely to be the change in the availability of freshwater associated with changing precipitation. The most recent IPCC Report notes that all regions of the world are expected to experience a net negative impact on water...

The paper explores the scope and sustainability of a self-enforcing cooperative agreement in the framework of a game theoretic model, where the upstream and downstream country, Burkina Faso and Ghana respectively in the Volta River Basin, bargain over the level of water abstraction in the...

NGO aid is still widely believed to be superior to official aid (ODA). However, the incentives of NGOs to excel and target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of NGO aid by performing panel Tobit estimations for...