This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, "Green to Gold" demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business ...
Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the obvious enemy: large American factories with belching smoke-stacks and pipes gushing wastes. Federal legislation has succeeded in providing cleaner air and water, ...
The interaction of international trade and the environment has been a topic of debate since the early 1990s. Many environmentalists complain that trade liberalization can run roughshod over efforts to control pollution and manage natural resources, advocates of free trade see green groups as protectionist. Arguing that attention to environmental ...
There is growing consensus that new international rules and principles are needed to reconcile conflicts, and promote complementarities between trade and environmental goals. The issue is especially acute for very poor countries striving for rapid economic growth. Esty, a former Environmental Protection Agency official with extensive experience in ...
Regulatory Competition and Economic Integration addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic: at what level of government should regulation be undertaken? Whether called 'federalism' or 'subsidiarity', the struggle between those who wish to centralize governmental functions and those who seek to decentralize them ...
This volume argues that Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's (APEC) trade and investment liberalization can be compatible with environmental protection. It identifies the issues that must be dealt with internationally and proposes an environmental action agenda for APEC.
Environmental decision-making has long been plagued by uncertainties and a lack of critical information. The data and analyses needed for thoughtful and systematic action to minimize pollution harms and to optimize the use of natural resources are often unavailable or seem too costly to obtain. As a result, choices are made on the basis of ...
The connection between trade and the environment gives rise to a set of issues that is relatively new and still controversial. The concern of environmentalists is that liberalised trade will lead to an increase in products that are harmful to the environment. Those who promote freer trade, on the other hand, are concerned that environmental issues ...
The proposal a decade ago to advance regional integration of the United States, Canada and Mexico by negotiating a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) provoked a sharp reaction from the environmental community. US environmental groups argued, among other things, that increased competition would weaken environmental standards in all three ...
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