Introduction -- Regional pollution emission in China -- Technology, production, and the environment -- Regional convergence from an environmental perspective -- Openness, the environment, and productivity -- Structural change, convergence, and the environment -- Unbalanced development and the...

Nowhere has the divide between advocates and critics of globalization been more striking than in debates over free trade and the environment. And yet the literature on the subject is high on rhetoric and low on results. This book is the first to systematically investigate the subject using both...