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Trade and Environment The Regulatory Controversy and a Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Unilateral Environmental Action

Even though the interlinkage between trade and environment is obvious and important, it has been acknowledged as such only recently by the world community. Yet it is far from being truly addressed, as is indicated by the negotiations up to the Uruguay Round Final Act, signed in April 1994, as the mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steininger, Karl W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 1995, 1995
Edition:1st ed. 1995
Series:Contributions to Economics
Subjects:
Environmental Economics
International Economics
International Economic Relations
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. The Issues of Interlinkage
  • 1. Environmental Regulation Affecting Trade Flows
  • 2. Trade Liberalization Affecting the State of the Environment
  • 3. Further Interlinkages
  • III. The Regulatory Issue
  • 1. Current International Regulation
  • 2. Theoretical Background
  • 3. Opposing Demands for a Regulatory Change and its Paradigmatic Background
  • IV. Divergent Environmental Process Regulation in Open Economies
  • 1. Theoretical Approaches
  • 2. Empirical Evidence
  • 3. Considerations for Austria
  • V. Modeling the Environment-Economy Interaction for Austria in a Trade-Focused Computable General Equilibrium Framework
  • 1. The Method of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
  • 2. The Austrian Environment and Trade Model
  • 3. Policy Simulations — The Effects of Unilateral Policy
  • VI. Conclusions
  • 1. Categorizing the Issues
  • 2. Current International Regulation
  • 3. Trade and Environment in the Theoretical Framework
  • 4. Trade Measures for Environmental Ends?
  • 5. Paradigmatic Background
  • 6. Further Regulatory Development
  • 7. Effects of Divergent Process Regulation
  • 8. The Case of Austria
  • 9. Empirical Quantification of the Economic Effects of Unilateral Environmental Action
  • Appendix 1 Uruguay Round Decision on Trade and Environment
  • Appendix 2 Environmental Policy Shifting the General Equilibrium Supply Curves in a Trade Model
  • Appendix 3 A Schematic Social Accounting Matrix
  • Appendix 4 Tables
  • References — General
  • References — CGE.

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