Trade, Innovation, EnvironmentCarlo Carraro Springer Science & Business Media, 1994 M08 31 - 407 pages The research projects at Fondazione Mattei have for some time now been dealing with the international dimension of environmental policy. Indeed, most environ mental phenomena have international implications, which stem from a number of factors: physical ones, such as the transnational or global consequences of pollution and resource conservation; technological factors, such as technological cooperation and diffusion; and economic factors, such as trad~, plant localiza tion and migrations. Even in the absence of transnational pollution, therefore, the environmental issues involve substantial interdependence among countries. This volume, edited by Carlo Carraro, presents some of the research which we carried out in international environmental policy, focusing on the relationship between trade, innovation and the environment. The papers in part one discuss the impact of international trade and institu tions on environmental resources. Those in part two deal with the importance of innovation when attempting to solve the major environmental problems. The papers in part three, finally, focus on specific policy issues stressing the impor tance of institutions and property rights. The whole set of contributions can be seen as progress in environmental economics. The different chapters highlight the close relationship between envi ronmental issues and economic development and they merge the literature on the environment with the literature on innovation, economic growth, trade, plant localization, institutions, etc. |
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... industrial countries and the South the developing countries . It considers a class of environmental issues arising from the use of environmental renewable resources as inputs to the production of traded goods . Typical exam- ples are ...
... industrial countries and the South the developing countries . It considers a class of environmental issues arising from the use of environmental renewable resources as inputs to the production of traded goods . Typical exam- ples are ...
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... industries may increase inefficiencies and reduce international competitiveness . Moreover , the trade impacts of ... industry's product has an adverse environmental impact . They assume that first - best envi- ronmental instruments ...
... industries may increase inefficiencies and reduce international competitiveness . Moreover , the trade impacts of ... industry's product has an adverse environmental impact . They assume that first - best envi- ronmental instruments ...
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... industry which does not locate plants abroad in response to environmental policy ( because it does not pay to do so ) may not be desiderable . The second part of the volume moves towards another relevant policy issue : what is the role ...
... industry which does not locate plants abroad in response to environmental policy ( because it does not pay to do so ) may not be desiderable . The second part of the volume moves towards another relevant policy issue : what is the role ...
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... industry . It is often thought that if , instead of spending resources on abatement , firms had to devote resource to R & D in order to discover some new " envi- ronmentally friendly " technology with lower level emissions , then the ...
... industry . It is often thought that if , instead of spending resources on abatement , firms had to devote resource to R & D in order to discover some new " envi- ronmentally friendly " technology with lower level emissions , then the ...
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... industry as capital is expanded for pollution abate- ment equipment . The installation of scrubbers in smoke stacks is a good example of this . And a longer - term possibility is that it leads to changes in production processes and ...
... industry as capital is expanded for pollution abate- ment equipment . The installation of scrubbers in smoke stacks is a good example of this . And a longer - term possibility is that it leads to changes in production processes and ...
Contents
11 Property Rights and the Dynamics of Renewable Resources in NorthSouth Trade | 15 |
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Environmental Concerns and Protectionism | 75 |
14 Foreign Trade and Renewable Resources | 109 |
15 Environmental Policy Plant Location and Government Protection | 123 |
2 Models of Innovation and Growth | 165 |
21 Should Environmental Innovation Policy Be Internationally Coordinated? | 167 |
22 Strategic Innovation and Strategic Environmental Policy | 205 |
24 Endogenous Growth Environment and RD | 241 |
25 Sustainable Growth and Renewable Recources in the Global Economy | 259 |
3 Policy Issues | 281 |
31 Laissez Faire or Nationalization and Collective Control of the Global Commons | 283 |
32 Formation of International Environmental Agreements | 301 |
33 The Design of a Carbon Tax in an Incomplete International Climate Agreement | 323 |
The Role of Environmental Damage Estimation | 363 |
Some Lessons from the Recent Experience on Greenhouse Effect | 385 |
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