The Doha declaration on trade and environment proposed to clarify the relationship between multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) trade obligations and WTO rules by only guaranteeing economic integration upon ratification of certain MEAs. In other words, it pushed to authorize the use of...

Linking of repeated games and exchange of concessions in fields of relative strength may lead to more cooperation and to Pareto improvements relative to the situation where each game is played separately. In this paper we formalize these statements, provide some general results concerning the...

The growing attention to global warming due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the process of fossil fuel--based energy production is expressed in the Kyoto Protocol, which prescribes, on average, a 7 percent reduction in GHG emissions for developed countries. Although Israel was not included...

Forest fires are one of the main factors of environmental degradation, since they cause wildlife destruction, air pollution problems and consistently contribute to the threat of the hydrogeological equilibrium. For this reason, much effort is generally made to avoid their occurrence. Although a...

When evaluating the economic efficiency of policies to reduce nonpoint source pollution, administrative or transaction costs are usually not taken into account. While the importance of transaction costs has been recognized in the theoretical literature, the fact that they are not incorporated in...

Despite their important role in local and national activity, SMEs are widely recognised by governmental bodies and comminities to be a major source of local environmental quality degradation. This paper considers the issues surrounding the traditional applicatioon of planning instruments to...

This paper presents a model of imperfect international competition. Within this framework, the optimal choice of national environmental policy instrument and international emissions trading scheme is discussed. The choice of national instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards,...

This paper develops a dynamic model wherein production generates pollution that is viewed as a public bad by consumers. There are two types of consumers : those who are altuist a la Barro-Becker and leave bequests to their children and those who are pure life-cyclers. Both types of consumers...