ABSTRACT
The international dimension of the management of the environment is one to which the student of environmental economics is rarely exposed, and yet it is one in which there is a great deal of activity. There is great concern about the transport of SOx from north-west Europe to Scandinavia; about pollution from oil tankers; and about the global degradation of the ozone layer in the stratosphere. At the international level the political dimension of environmental management is even more clear than in national environmental management problems, making the achievement of an environmentally satisfactory solution (that is, a solution that will not lead to irreversible environmental degradation) even more difficult.
