Search Results - subject:"ecolabelling"

Consumer sovereignty, economic efficiency and the trade liberalisation debate

Gowdy, John M.; Walton, Marsha L. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 3 (2003) 1, pp. 1-13

In this paper, we examine the policies of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as an example of the conflict in neoclassical theory between consumer sovereignty and efficiency in production. We begin by going to the roots of neoclassical theory, namely the axioms of consumer choice and the notion...

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Consumer sovereignty, economic efficiency and the trade liberalisation debate

Gowdy, John M.; Walton, Marsha L. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 3 (2003) 1, pp. 1-13

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Is Ecolabelling a Reliable Environmental Policy Measure?

Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 18 (2001) 1, pp. 113-127

The rationale of ecolabelling is to enable firms to reap the willingness-to-payfor the environmental attributes of … goods by helping consumers toidentify ``green'' products. By so doing, ecolabelling is expected tostimulate spontaneous …

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Towards sustainable food and farming systems in industrialised countries

Pretty, Jules - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 1 (2000) 1, pp. 77-94

-operatives; organise into farmers' groups; and encourage ecolabelling and traceability. The challenge is to find ways of integrating all of …

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Strategic Policy and Environmental Quality: Helping the Domestic Industry to Provide Credible Information

Rege, Mari - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 15 (2000) 3, pp. 279-296

This paper shows that a country can improve an industry's competitiveness by requiring domestic firms to produce at the environmental standards at which they claim to produce or otherwise impose a penalty on those firms found cheating. Competitiveness will improve because this regulation will...

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Towards sustainable food and farming systems in industrialised countries

Pretty, Jules - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 1 (2000) 1, pp. 77-94

-operatives; organise into farmers' groups; and encourage ecolabelling and traceability. The challenge is to find ways of integrating all of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005751925

Green Lemons - Environmental Labels and Entry into an Environmentally Differentiated Market under Asymmetric Information

Kuhn, Michael - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 1999

The paper inquires whether a public eco-label mitigatesadverse selection, where an ecologically superior (green) product variant is underprovided. A model, integrating entry into a perfectly competitive, vertically differentiated industry and rationally expected quality structure (REQS) under...

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Summary report of the Workshop on Life-Cycle Management and Trade : 20 - 21 July 1993

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Ecolabelling and fisheries management

Gardiner, P.R.; Viswanathan, K.K. - WorldFish Center, Consultative Group on International …

fisheries harvested by sustainable means, and the ecolabelling of fish and seafood products from certified fisheries. The … countries of ecolabelling, as currently formulated, focus on five general areas: (1) legitimacy and credibility; (2) a mismatch … ecolabelling as currently practiced is unlikely to be widely adopted in Asian countries. Certification may have sporadic success in …

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