North Sea cooperation : linking international and domestic pollution control

This text presents a study of the implementation of international commitments and searches for regularities and tendencies in a comparative perspective.

The purpose of the study is to examine the functioning and consequences of environmental institutions to understand how it is possible to influence the behaviour of polluters.

The North-East Atlantic co-operation, with the North Sea a naturally focused area, provides elements of co-operative "failure", "success" and change.

The text is one of a series that takes key problems for environmental policy and examines the politics behind their cause and possible resolution.