Scott Barrett is a professor of natural resource economics at

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. There, he holds the title of Lenfest Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and

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. He is known for his game theoretical analysis of

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treaties. His book on the subjec
''Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty Making''
was published in 2003. He has been involved in the discussions of the Kyoto Treaty and its comparison to the more successful

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.Barrett, Scott, "Montreal versus Kyoto". Global Public Goods, July 1999, pp. 192-220 (29) More recently, he has been publishing on the institutions set up to control the regional and global spread of infectious diseases. His latest book
''Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods''
was published by Oxford University Press in September 2007. This book examines a wide range of issues, from nuclear proliferation to infectious disease pandemics, from over-fishing to peacekeeping, from asteroid defense to big science, from the standard for determining the time to international development. Before joining Columbia University, Barrett taught at The

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(SAIS),

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, the

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and was also affiliated with the

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. His graduate work was at the

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Columbia University faculty page
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