Preface. List of authors. Introduction to international environmental economics (E.C. van Ierland). Climate Change. A comparison of three international agreements on carbon emission abatement (J. Eyckmans, S.

Proost, E. Schokkaert). Coalitions and side payments in international CO 2 treaties (S. Kverndokk). The timing of CO 2 control in the face of uncertainty and learning (C.D. Kolstad). A global marketable permits approach to CO 2 mitigation: implications for US energy demand (A.

Rose, B. Stevens, P.-C. Li). Implementation issues for global tradeable carbon entitlements (T. Tietenberg). International Trade and the Environment. Trade and environment: A brief survey of current issues (I.

de Boer). Emission taxes and international market share rivalry (K. Conrad). Environmental policy and trade liberalization under imperfect competition (P. Kennedy). Environmental policy in a small open economy with distortionary labour taxes: A general equilibrium analysis (L. Bovenberg, R. de Mooij).

Acidification and Tradeable Permits. Reductions of sulphur emissions in Europe: A combination of the 'Best Available Technology' concept and the 'Critical Loads Approach' (M. Amann et al. ). Improving environment through permit trading: The limits to a market approach (T. Zylicz). Trading sulphur emission permits in Europe using an exchange rate (G. Klaassen).

Tradeable SO 2 permits: Guided bilateral trade in Europe (S. Kruitwagen, E. Hendrix, E.C. van Ierland). Acid rain in Europe: a dynamic perspective on the use of economic incentives (K.-G. MÄler).

Index.