This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO
Conference "The International Dimension of Environmental Policy" held in
Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000. We would like to thank those
who made this conference possible: the European Science Foundation
(ESF), which provided financial and organizational support; the European
Commission EURESCO Programme; the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research (NWO), which sponsored the conference under the
research project: "Environmental Policy, International Competitiveness
and the Location Behavior of Firms"; and GLOBUS, Tilburg University. The
European Science Foundation (ESF), the EURESCO Programme, NWO and GlOBUS
cannot be held responsible for the contents and/or opinions expressed in
this volume. Our gratitude also goes to the people who assisted us in
editing this volume: the papers' referees, the authors, our publisher
Kluwer, and Ineke Lavrijssen and Evelyn Rogge for invaluable editorial
help at different stages of this project. Laura Marsiliani W. Allen
Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, USA and
Department of Economics and Finance, University of Durham, United
Kingdom; Michael Rauscher Institute of Economics, Rostock University,
Germany; Cees Withagen Department of Economics and CentER, Tilburg
University, The Netherlands and Department of Economics, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [Marsiliani, L., Rauscher, M.
and Withagen, C] (eds.), [Environmental Economics and the
International Economy], vii.