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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... emissions, including those created through publication of this book. For more details of our environmental policy, see www.earthscan.co.uk. This book was printed in the UK by CPI Antony Rowe. The paper used is FSC certified. Trading ...
... Emissions of carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide per transported product Table 5 Environmental charges in relation to the price of products Table 6 Tropical deforestation Preface Recent decades have seen a dramatic ...
... 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 connected to the ...
... emissions only have an effect on the domestic manufacturing processes. Consequently, environmental policy measures enacted today have a more direct effect on trade with other countries. Measures regulating the environmental effects of ...
... emission of carbon dioxide, which seems to increase exponentially in relation to increasing income despite technological ... emissions of pollutants, but not for the health of resource stocks, such as soil and its cover or forests. Third ...
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 | |