Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Victim Pays Principle? -- 1.1 The Rhine Treaty -- 1.2 Issue linkage -- 1.3 Specific watershed cases -- 1.3.1 The Danube -- 1.3.2 The Nile -- 1.3.3 The Mekong -- 1.3.4 The Plata -- 1.4 Managing international rivers -- 2. Regional cooperation -- 2.1 Acid rain in Europe -- 2.1.1 The Thirty Percent Club -- 2.1.2 Protocols to the Geneva Convention -- 2.1.3 Non-European acid rain -- 2.2 Baltic Sea eutrophication -- 2.2.1 The Baltic Sea predicament -- 2.2.2 Gdansk and Helsinki Conventions -- 2.2.3 Prospects for a regional policy -- 2.2.4 Implementation of hypothetical transfer mechanism -- 3. Protecting the Global Commons -- 3.1 Ozone layer -- 3.1.1 Ozone depletion story -- 3.1.2 DuPont "versus" ICI -- 3.1.3 The Montreal Protocol -- 3.2 Climate -- 3.2.1 The greenhouse effect as a public good -- 3.2.2 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- 3.2.3 The Berlin Mandate -- 3.2.4 Carbon leakage -- 3.2.5 Will co-benefits help? -- 3.3 Biodiversity preservation -- 3.3.1 Biodiversity as a public good -- 3.3.2 The 1992 convention on biological diversity -- 4. Cross-cutting Issues -- 4.1 International development assistance -- 4.2 The institutional framework for environmental protection -- 4.2.1 Debt-for-Nature swaps -- 4.2.2 The Polish EcoFund experience -- 4.2.3 Applied game theory -- 4.2.4 Lessons learnt from the Polish debt-for-environment swap -- 4.3 Environmental aspects of European non-environmental policies -- 4.4 Trade and environment -- 4.4.1 Academic analyses -- 4.4.2 Policy conclusions -- Summary and Conclusions -- References.