Environmental mediation has found some success as a mechanism for dispute settlement and problem solving in domestic settings. The prospects for its application in the international polity are explored here in the context of both localized transboundary issues and global environmental problems. Though facing a formidable set of necessary conditions, international environmental mediation could prove efficacious. Indeed, mediation offers one of the few methods for coping with environmental problems that retains the essentially decentralized character of the contemporary international political system.
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