The International Protection of the Environment: Voluntary Agreements among Sovereign Countries

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This chapter discusses the details of the international protection of the environment, citing the voluntary agreements among the different sovereign countries. The chapter states that a large quantity of pollutants is discharged into the environment as a result of human activity in each country. Also, the transportation of pollutants in the environmental media is a source of substantial interdependence among countries: each country benefits from using the environment as a receptacle for emissions and is also damaged by environmental degradation. The chapter presents a general framework with which to analyze the profitability and stability of international agreements to protect the environment in the presence of trans-frontier or global pollution. The chapter also discusses the profitability and stability of the countries and explains the main results and the policy implications.

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