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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... recycling and offsetting our CO2 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 ...
... substances. There is, therefore, an increasing need to design and adapt products to the ecological cycle through recycling, re-utilization, and the efficient use of both energy and materials. In general, measures against large point source.
... recycling. 17 17 See, for example, the annual reports from World Resources Institute (World Resources 92/93) and Worldwatch Institute (State of the World 1993). The population explosion, the increase in the scale of human activities and ...
... recycle natural resources and develop a sustainable society The challenge of technology lies in the ability to build future products and prod in tion processes at a high level of quality, and to create recyclable or re-usable products ...
... recycling of products, which further reduces both point and non-point, source emissions, assuming that recycling is not based on an increased use of fossil fuel and non-renewable natural resources; ecocycles and integration with the ...
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 | |