The analysis of common goods needs to look very carefully at the characteristics of the goods and of the social situations of their provision. Different characteristics lead to different strategic constellations and therefore to different opportunities for institutional solutions to the problems...

For the European Union (EU) the accession of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) means incorporating a large group of economically weak states, whose political preferences for environmental policy are relatively low. In this respect, the challenge of the Eastern enlargement is...