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

This book supplies a categorization of the manifold interlinkages between trade and environment. It investigates two central ones in detail. The trade regulatory is pursued on a theoretical as well as original paradigmatic basis. For an open economy unilaterally setting its environmental process regulation more strictly, economic effects are identified within traditional and new trade theory, and empirically quantified for Austria within a computable general equilibrium (CGE) framework. Of general interest is the in-depth introduction to the spreading CGE-method, its history and traditions, and recent environmental applications