Analyzing Global Environmental Issues

Ariel Dinar is Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Director of the Water Science and Policy Center at the University of California, Riverside, USA. His teaching and research focus on environmental and resource economics and strategic behavior, and the environment at local and international levels. He publishes on issues related to the economics and politics of natural resources and the environment, with emphasis on water.Amnon Rapoport is Distinguished Professor of Management at the University of California, Riverside, USA. His research interests are in individual and interactive decision making. He has published several books and more than 200 book chapters and articles on sequential choice behavior, coalition behavior, dynamic pricing, route choice in networks, and bargaining.

• 1. Global and Environmental Issues: Theoretical applications and policy implications Ariel Dinar and Amnon Rapoport 2. Coordinating to Protect the Global Climate: Inequality and communication in the experimental lab Alessandro Tavoni and Astrid Dannenberg 3. The Role of Information in the Tragedy of the Commons Felix Muñoz-Garcia and Ana Espinola-Arredondo 4. Environmental Negotiations under Uncertainty: Can they improve welfare? Ana Espinola-Arredondo and Felix Muñoz-Garcia 5. Enforced Geographic Separation as a Factor in Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons Dmytro Zhosan and Roy Gardner 6. Experimental Studies of Games with a Dynamic Public Bad Svetlana Pevnitskaya and Dmitry Ryvkin 7. Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and the New Member Problem: From theory to policy Gordon R. Munro 8. Haggling on the Verge of Disaster Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, Justin Leroux and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné 9. The Dynamics of Collective Actions that Protect the Environment against the Worst Effects of Globalization Paloma Zapata-Lillo 10. Informal Agreements in Transboundary Water Resources Antonio Lloret 11. Efficient Use of the Mekong River Basin: A joint management approach Xueqin Zhu, Harold Houba and Kim Hang Pham-Do 12. Models of Repression and Revolt in Autocracies: A specific point of view on the Arab Spring Mario Gilli 13. Optimal Tariffs on Exhaustible Resources: The case of quantity-setting Kenji Fujiwara and Ngo Van Long 14. A Market-Based Design for International Environmental Agreements Andries Nentjes, Bouwe R. Dijkstra and Frans P. De Vries