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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... can be used during forthcoming GATT negotiations. The group has established specific guidelines for trade and environmental policy, with the aim of avoiding conflicts. In a communiqué from the OECD annual meeting between trade and ...
... can be used to their greatest advantage. The environment can be included within the definition of resources; it is a resource base on which society and economic development rests, and which is deteriorated as degradation increases. To ...
... can be replaced by technology. Fortunately, this view of the world is changing, albeit quite Nature's Life Support Systems as the Foundation for International Trade Life support ecosystems — a prerequisite for welfare Growth and the ...
... can be sustained by nature within a specific area and under given technological capabilities. Societal carrying capacity is the maximal population size which can be sustained under various social systems, and especially the associated ...
... can be the key needed to turn society in the right direction. At an earlier point in time, expansion of national economies was not limited, since their size was small in comparison to the global ecosystem's size and buffer capacity ...
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 | |