Title: Trade and Investment: Selected Links to Domestic Environmental Policy
Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of key relations between economic globalization and national environmental policies. The 1990s witnessed an upsurge in global economic flows (international trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), and portfolio investment). The environmental impacts of those economic changes can be broadly decomposed into their scale, structural, and technology components. Applied to the case of FDI in particular, there is little evidence that the net environmental effects have been negative, although there are some specific circumstances (particular sectors, industries, or locations) in which this may indeed be the case. National governments can work to ensure a positive result by designing domestic environmental policies that support economic globalization goals, and vice versa.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-02-24
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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