Russia 2010: And What It Means for the World

Russia 2010: And What It Means for the World
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
272
ISBN
 
0679759220
Издатель
 
Routledge
Категория
 
Россия

Содержание:

Россия в войне 1941-1945

Описание:

The relationship between trade and the environment has become an increasingly contentious issue between economists and environmentalists. Economists maintain that trade helps the natural environment because rich countries can better afford to protect their unspoiled areas. Environmentalists counter that the pursuit of national wealth drives global environmental degradation and that free trade accelerates the process. Instead of arguing one side or the other, this book uses new analytic methods, including a systems dynamics model, to seek an answer to the impasse. Using lateral pressure theory to account for politics within and among nations, it extends the theorys initial application (which was to explain the onset of war) to the environmentby specifying additional connections between the natural and social spheres. In making explicit the complex causal connections between world trade and environmental degradation, the book finds that GNP increases in the rich, developed...

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