The study shows that trade could play a positive role in the diffusion of environment-friendly technologies around the world and is backed up by the five case studies on chemical-intensive agriculture, deforestation, global warming, acid rain, and overfishing.

An ecosystem approach means different things to different people. As a result the concept of ecosystem-based fishery management is evolving and it has no universal definition or consistent application. As regards ecosystem modeling, most economic models of fishery ignore the linkages to lower...

chapter 1 Approaching the Problem of Ecological Valuation -- chapter 2 Sociocultural Valuation of Ecological Resources -- chapter 3 Integrating Economics and Ecological Assessment -- chapter 4 Valuation Methods -- chapter 5 Complexity in Ecological Systems -- chapter 6 Organizing and Integrating...

1-share trades are the most common odd lot trade size, accounting for 9.62% of all odd lot transactions and 3.65% of all trades on NASDAQ in 2012. While 50.41% of 1-share trades result from broken orders, 34.89% of 1-share trades are intentional. We provide evidence that traders use 1-share...

This paper conceptualizes transnational corporate economy as an additional sub-structure of the world economic system. This is useful in understanding the phenomenon of globalization by way of differentiating the present trend of globalization from its earlier (pre-World-War I) counterpart. The...

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on...