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"In this book - reissued in paperback with an afterword that comments on recent events - David Victor explains why the Kyoto Protocol was never likely to become an effective legal instrument and explores how its collapse offers opportunities to establish a more realistic alternative." "Individuals at all levels of environmental science, economics, public policy, and politics - from students to professionals - and anyone else hoping to participate in the debate over how to slow global warming will want to read this book."--BOOK JACKET.