The tropical timber market is characterized by multiple species, multiple products, and regional patterns of trade and production. In such a market, finding a representative price is a difficult and perhaps an irrelevant task. So Varangis conducted tests to see whether prices from different...

Trade-related measures aim to regulate side-effects in international environmental agreements and are expected to positively influence the level of participation in the agreements as well as their degree of stability. In this paper we examine one side-effect of the 1994 International Tropical...

Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...

Export restrictions can be problematic if trading partners question either their conformity with international obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs)...

Zertifizierungssysteme für Forstprodukte werden häufig als ein Weg gesehen, eine nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung auch dann zu befördern, wenn eine direkte Durchsetzung von Prozessstandards unmöglich erscheint. Ausgehend vom Konzept ‘sich selbst durchsetzender Vereinbarungen’ wird in diesem...