Agreements of Economic Integration and the Choice of National Environmental Policies

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Agreements of Economic Integration and the Choice of National Environmental Policies

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ID	3167309
Author(s)	Weder, Rolf; Ziegler, Andreas R.
Author(s) at UniBasel	Weder, Rolf
Year	2002
Title	Agreements of Economic Integration and the Choice of National Environmental Policies
Journal	European Journal of Law and Economics
Volume	13
Number	3
Pages / Article-Number	239-256
Abstract	This paper analyzes the question whether and in which respect agreements of (regional) economic integration affect the choice of environmental policies by individual countries. We focus our interdisciplinary analysis on the agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). We find that these agreements primarily restrict a country's choice among possible instruments to achieve a certain environmental level or target, but do, in principle, not restrict its choice with regard to the environmental target or level itself. We also show that this type of restriction is likely to benefit the individual countries and the world as a whole because it tends to promote the implementation of more efficient environmental policy instruments. A brief analysis of the case of Switzerland illustrates this point.
Publisher	Springer
ISSN/ISBN	0929-1261 ; 1572-9990
edoc-URL	http://edoc.unibas.ch/43010/
Full Text on edoc	No
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.1023/A:1014774618433

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