International Competitiveness and Environmental PoliciesTerry Barker, Jonathan Köhler E. Elgar Pub., 1998 - 284 pages Government policies to reduce environmental pollution and global warming are often criticized as damaging to the economy, particularly by reducing international competitiveness. This book addresses the issue by examining many of the policies concerned, and their effects on competitiveness. It demonstrates that well-designed, market-oriented environmental policies may be expected to improve both domestic and international competitiveness. The authors dismiss the fear that environmental policies will damage competitiveness by approaching the issue from four different perspectives: the economic analysis of competitiveness; a geo-economic approach to trade and foreign investment between Europe, NAFTA and Southeast Asia; studies of the effects of environmental policies on competitiveness; and the formal modelling of carbon taxation, international competitiveness and carbon leakage. The book also includes results from a global econometric model on the potential for carbon leakage, a detailed case study of German national policies, an examination of life cycle analysis and competitiveness, and an empirical study of green product development. This book will be of great interest to academics working in the field of environmental economics and researchers involved in environmental policy. |
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... improve the quality of life , they may also improve competitiveness by making a locality or a country more attractive as a place to live and work . This is a rather nebulous improvement , but may be very important in the long term ...
... improves from 3.9 per cent of GDP in the base case in 2005 to 4.3 per cent . In the case of the carbon / energy tax scenario the balance of payments deteriorates to 3.7 per cent ( see Table 3 ) . Nearly all sectors improve their price ...
... improving resource efficiency , whereas tightening emissions controls and market preferences for greener commodities ... improve the ecoprofiles of products . Life cycle approaches are most likely to stimulate innovation , and thereby to ...
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frameworks | 13 |
theory | 33 |
International competitiveness and carbon taxation | 71 |
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