Trading with the Environment: Ecology, economics, institutions and policyRoutledge, 2013 M11 26 - 160 pages Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing countries have a responsibility only to their local ecosystems, or are they also responsible for environmental degradation caused by the production of traded goods in exporting countries? Trading the Environment examines both the dependence and the effects of international trade on the earth's life support systems and looks at ways in which trading regulations could be adapted to promote ecologically sustainable economic development. It addresses the issues from a fully integrated approach, focusing on the interrelations between ecosystems, economic development and trade. The authors provide a carefully constructed ecological and economic analysis of trade and the environment, examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks and set out 16 recommendations to achieve environment beneficial trade at both national and international levels. Trading with the environment was originally commissioned by the Swedish government and is already regarded thereon essential reference. It makes an excellent introduction as well as constructive analysis, both for students and for policy-makers and professional economics and other scientists working on the issues. Published in 1995 |
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... this book are the responsibility of the authors alone. Thomas Andersson, Carl Folke and Stefan Nyström Stockholm, Sweden 20 March 1995 Acknowledgements Two months after the United Nations Conference on Environment Preface.
... Sweden. One of the topics was trade and the environment. The work and discussions that the meeting generated illustrated the need for analysing the complex issue of trade and the environment. This inspired us to write this book, with ...
... Sweden, import restrictions regarding blue-finned tuna, a species threatened with extinction, have been debated. There are a variety of reasons why trade and the environment are becoming increasingly intertwined. A number of them will ...
... Sweden reduced emissions from the thousand largest sources by 70 per cent during the 1970s and 1980s.3 At the same time as point source emissions were being reduced, new environmental issues began appearing. The new problems are often ...
... Sweden has started the move towards an ecocyclic society by reducing and in many cases stopping altogether the use of poisons and hazardous chemicals.27 The next logical step would be actively to connect our production and consumption ...
Contents
Economic Perspectives on Trade and the Environment | |
Trade Regulations the Institutional Framework and Current | |
The New Playing Field Towards Sustainable Development | |
International environmental agreements with trade provisions | |
Excerpts from the GATT | |
Trade and Environment in the GATT | |