Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the benefits of global trade, many of the world's developing countries and countries with economies in transition, have sought to actively participate in the global trading regime. Recently, however, the undesirable effect of environmental degradation has emerged as a result of rapid increase in trade. This case study on Chile's Mining sector is one of a series of United Nations Environment Programme publications that discusses the country's experience with the environmental impacts of trade liberalization on their natural and environmental resources. It also presents innovative strategies to address negative impacts and strengthen positive ones. The other country studies available are: on Bangladesh's Shrimp farming industry; India's automotive sector; the Philippines' forestry sector; Romania's water sector and Uganda's fisheries sector
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by United Nations Environment Programme Staff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report on the Romanian water sector, is one in a series of the United Nations Environment Programme publications presenting country studies. The study addresses the short and long-term impact on the water sector resulting from the 1997 removal of quantitative restrictions on export. It identifies policy options required to mitigate the negative impacts of such policies. This project aims to develop economic instruments to address current pricing mechanism shortcoming.The underlying problem causing unsustainable water use practices is that current water prices are not determined on the basis of full-cost-recovery. This study aims to develop economic instruments to address current pricing mechanism shortcomings. It examines current water use practices and the development of new economic instruments. A review of international literature was made to provide guidance for Romania where higher water costs are likely to have an important impact on competitiveness. The results indicate that industrial companies are sensitive to the costs of water. It highlights that low water prices mean that cost recovery is not achieved and little or no account is taken of economic factors in forecasting water demands.
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by United Nations Environment Programme Staff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the benefits of global trade, many of the world's developing countries and countries with economies in transition, have sought to actively participate in the global trading regime. Recently, however, the undesirable effect of environmental degradation has emerged as a result of rapid increase in trade. This case study on India's Automobile sector is one of a series of United Nations Environment Programme publications that discusses the country's experience with the environmental impacts of trade liberalization on their natural and environmental resources. It also presents innovative strategies to address negative impacts and strengthen positive ones. Other country studies available are: on Bangladesh's Shrimp farming industry; Chile's mining sector; the Philippines' forestry sector; Romania's water sector and Uganda's fisheries sector.
Download or read book Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Context of Trade Liberalization and Export Growth in Indonesia written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reviews existing environmental policies in the Indonesian pulp and paper industry. It assesses existing market-based incentives for efficient and sustainable use of the natural resources, and proposes an effluent charge to abate pollution.
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report on the shrimp farming industry in Bangladesh, is one in a series of UNEP publications presenting country studies implemented under a first phase of "Capacity Building for Integrating Environmental Considerations into Development Planning and Decision-making" projects funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands."--Preface (page v).
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by United Nations Environment Programme Staff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising the benefits of global trade, many of the world's developing countries and countries with economies in transition, have sought to actively participate in the global trading regime. Recently, however, the undesirable effect of environmental degradation has emerged as a result of rapid increase in trade. This case study on Uganda's fisheries sector is one of a series of United Nations Environment Programme publications that discusses the country's experience with the environmental impacts of trade liberalisation on their natural and environmental resources. It also presents innovative strategies to address negative impacts and strengthen positive ones. Other country studies available are: on Bangladesh's Shrimp farming industry; Chile's mining sector; the Philippines' forestry sector; Romania's water sector and the automotive industry in India.
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by United Nations Environment Programme Staff and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's developing countries and countries with economies in transition, have sought to actively participate in the global trading regime through structural readjustment, foreign investment and targeting particular export markets. However the rapid increase in trade has often lead to environmental degradation. UNEP believes that environmental considerations should be integrated into developmental planning and has worked with six countries to identify the impacts of trade liberalisation and instruments that can sustainably manage those impacts. This case study is on Bangladesh's shrimp farming sector. As well as putting the export-oriented shrimp culture in its economic context, it reviews the evidence of environmental impact, examines the costs and benefits and then looks at policy measures to promote an environmentally friendly industry.
Download or read book Environmental Goods and Services written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent are there trade impediments to the transfer and adoption of environmental goods and services? How can these be addressed by global trade negotiations? What is the role of complementary measures in order to ensure "win-win" benefits -- that is promoting both environmental protection and economic growth? And how can developing countries also benefit to ensure a triple -- "win-win-win" -- situation? This book addresses these questions. A key conclusion of the research is the need for policy settings to address both supply and demand-side factors. Indeed supply-side factors, including a diverse and cumulative range of trade barriers are more significant inhibitors of the deployment of technology and service-based solutions to global environmental challenges than has been assumed heretofore. As a new round of services trade negotiations gathers momentum at the World Trade Organisation, and efforts continue to launch a broader WTO Round encompassing tariff negotiations, it is hoped this volume makes a timely contribution to debate on how trade liberalisation can yield concrete results on the journey to sustainable development.
Download or read book Effects of International Trade on the Environment written by Caroline Mutuku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: This paper looks into the effects the international trade has on the environment. Trade and environment is one of the most debated topics in management and economics studies over the years because of the increasing concerns on how international trade affects environment and vice versa. That said, the debate on trade and environment is not new, and it emerged in the early 1970s with concerns such as environmental protection, environmental policies on trade, and the impact on trade on environment. Most of the developed economies expressed interests on environmental degradation linked with the globalization process for instance, industrial pollution. In the 1980s, environmental concerns increased as more complex environmental issues were raised such as the climate change and the depletion of the ozone layer. Later in the 1990s, the sustainable development concept was introduced as trade liberalization and the globalization process accelerated. Several theories in support of international trade such as the economic theory has rendered the debate complex as the proponents of the economic theory argue that international trade is vital to economies because it results into a robust economic growth and also generates greater wellbeing of its citizens. That said, environmental policies and goals have been difficult to achieve during these debates. Diverse arguments exist about international trade with a few ecologists in favour of environmental protection as they argue that international trade has resulted into environmental depletion as the demand of world natural resources continue to increase. Of the two perspectives, there is an intermediate concept which has been proposed, the sustainable development which means that as international trade results into economic growth, this growth must be accompanied by environmental policies and strict environmental protection rules. Some of the defenders of sustainable development have supported free trade but with the inclusion of restrictions in multilateral negotiations so as to control the degradation of natural resources.
Download or read book Environment and Trade written by International Institute for Sustainable Development and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2000 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool to facilitate broader understanding and awareness of relationship between environment and trade which can then become the basis on which fair and environmentally sustainable policies and trade flows are built.
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization and Policies for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources written by Keynote Publishing Company and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1999-12-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agreement written by Gene M. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In general, a reduction in trade barriers will affect the environment by expanding the scale of economic activity, by altering the composition of economic activity and by initiating a change in the techniques of production. We present empirical evidence to assess the relative magnitudes of these three effects as they apply to further trade liberalization in Mexico. We first use comparable measures of three air pollutants in a cross-section of urban areas located in 42 countries to study the relationship between air quality and economic growth. We find for two pollutants (sulphur dioxide and 'smoke') that concentrations increase with per capita GDP at low levels of national income, but decrease with GDP growth at higher levels of income. We then study the determinants of the industry pattern of US imports from Mexico and of value added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in US industry influences the pattern of international trade and investment. Finally, we use the results from a computable general equilibrium model to study the likely compositional effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico.
Download or read book The Environmental Effects of Free Trade written by North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture, forestry, fisheries, endangered species, transport.
Download or read book Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements Methodologies written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings examines how to assess the environmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements.
Download or read book Trade Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment written by Paul Ekins and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalization and of making those impacts more consistent with sustainable development.
Download or read book Free Trade and the Environment written by Kevin Gallagher and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Free Trade and the Environment' examines the impact of international economic integration on the environment, taking as a case study the experience of Mexico, as it transformed itself from one of the most closed economies in the world to one of the mostopen.
