Trade, Development and the Environment

Transcript

00:00 |

Initial credits
00:26 |

Introduction
00:39 |

Free Market Environmentalism (FME)
- Neoclassical microeconomics
- Law and Economics
  - Privatization of federal lands
  - Environmental property rights
  - Appropriate oil drilling in Alaska
- Public Choice
- Austrian economic principles
12:52 |

Similarities between Economics and Ecology
- Consequences of changing the environment
- Definition of a healthy environment
- Environmental prejudice
18:26 |

Factors of economic development
- Rule of Law
- Measures of trade and development
- Income growth
22:01 |

Environmental conservation in developed countries
- Prevention of environmental damage
- Internalization of environmental costs
- Environmental quality protection
26:49 |

Environmental conservation in developing countries
- Phase 1: Rise in pollutants
- Phase 2: Decrease in pollutants
27:36 |

Anomaly on environmental quality
- Public health
- Main killer pollutants in developing countries
- Low cost solutions
- Environmental quality priorities
31:07 |

Correlation between property rights and income on health measures
- Clean water and property rights
- Sanitation and property rights
- Life expectancy and property rights
- Influence of trade on environmental quality
- Environmental quality as a superior good
- Comparison between income and environmental quality
- Lower costs as an effect of trade
  - Positive price and income effect
  - Ecoturism
- "Lean, green, policy machine"
44:33 |

Economic principles on environmental protection
45:30 |

Superfund programs
- Environmental Protection Agency orders cleanup
- Superfund system failure
- Superfund sites
- Superfunds vs. Environmental Policies
50:58 |

Questions
- How can information asymmetries between developing and developed nations in Free Trade and the measure of GNP affect environmentaln comparisons?
- How does income growth lead to a better environmental quality?
- Why will the Kyoto Protocol have more costs than benefits?
  - Kyoto Protocol Analysis
  - Personal posture
- Are education and environmental awareness important factors to improve environmental quality?
01:13:24 |

Conclusions
01:16:21 |

Final credits

Trade, Development and the Environment

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