Question 1

What is a collective action problem? Provide examples. Why do some collective action problems get solved, whereas others seem to resist resolution? What accounts for the difference?

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Question 2

What major international agreements have led up to the Paris Agreement? Have they been successful? Why or why not? Do most scholars and politicians think that the Paris Agreement is and will be a success? Why or why not?

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Question 3

What factors are thought to be behind the world's current environmental problems? How do these factors come together? Are these factors thought to be especially problematic in developed or developing countries?

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Question 4

What is a collective action problem? How does this idea relate to the environmental challenges we face today? What are examples of transnational, but not global environmental problems? What are examples of global environmental problems? Which problems are easier to address and why?

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Question 5

What were the major factors that enabled the world's leading countries to deal effectively with the ozone depletion problem in the late 1980s? Did this successful action have any implications for future attempts to deal with environmental problems?

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Question 6

Why is the world facing such unprecedented population growth? How does world population growth impact consumption growth and resource supply and demand? How does world population growth work against environmental sustainability?

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Question 7

Explore the connection between resource depletion and economic development. Is it fair to ask developing countries to constrain their development in order to create a more sustainable environment? Why or why not?

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Question 8

How does each of the main theories of political science view cooperation on environmental problems (likelihood, effectiveness, impact, etc.)?

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Question 9

How does the Montreal Protocol illustrate how cooperation can occur even on difficult collective action problems? What factor made the agreement possible?

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Question 10

In what ways do national governments attempt to work together to solve global environmental problems? What are some challenges working against this cooperation and what are the ways in which they have successfully cooperated?

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Quiz 14: The Global Environment and International Politics