Environment and Trade

Bibliographic Data

ID23635472
AuthorsE Neumayer (0000-0003-2719-7563, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages1-7
Publication date2017-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0037
OpenAlexW2947627387
ISBN9781118786352
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The effects of trade and trade liberalization on the environment are complex and myriad. One can analytically distinguish the main ones as scale, compositional effects, transport, static efficiency, dynamic efficiency, and governance effects. Some of these are likely to be predominantly positive (e.g., dynamic efficiency) or negative (e.g., transport), but the remainder are heavily context‐dependent such that trade and trade liberalization cannot be said to be unambiguously positive or negative for the environment. What seems clear, however, is that with suboptimal environmental policies in place, further trade liberalization is likely to exacerbate the detrimental environmental effects of negative externalities. Equally, however, if accompanied by efficient environmental policymaking liberalized trade can promote environmental protection.

Biology · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Externality · Free trade · International economics · International trade · Liberalization · Market economy · Microeconomics · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Energy, Environment, Economic Growth · Global trade and economics

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