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David G. Victor is co-Leader, project on ‘Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments (IEC)’, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Lazenburg, Austria. The views expressed here are his own.

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Victor, D.G. On writing good histories of climate change and testing social science theories. Climatic Change 29, 363–369 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01092423

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