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    Is trade good or bad for the environment?: sorting out the causality

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2001
    The authors ask whether economic growth eventually brings environmental improvement and whether cross-border integration helps or hurts in this process. That first question is the much-studied environmental Kuznet's curve, while the second is the focus of this paper.There is an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and some measures of environmental quality.
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    An Economic Analysis of Alternative Mangrove Management Strategies in Koh Kong Province, Cambodia

    IDRC Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia, 1997
    A recent economic study of the mangroves of Koh Kong concludes that without an integrated management plan for the area, environmental degradation will continue, possibly leading to collapse of the resource. This one-year study was undertaken by the Ministry of Environment with support from consultant Camille Bann and financing from EEPSEA.
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    Environmental changes and human health: World Resources Report 1998-99

    World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 1998
    Focuses on the critical issue of environmental change and human health. Drawing on the latest scientific data, report explores how environmental conditions contribute to the current burden of death and disease around the world and how that may change over the coming decades.
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    Assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management: lessons from the past, directions for the future

    The Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics - Michigan State University, 1998
    Paper reviews the literature assessing the economic impacts of integrated pest management (IPM). Definitions of IPM are categorized as input- or outcome-oriented, and an outcome- oriented definition is recommended for public program assessment. The literature on economic impact assessment of IPM is divided according to focus on expected profit, profitability risk, environment, and health.
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    Environment benefits from removing trade restrictions and distortions: background for WTO negotiations

    Overseas Development Institute, 1999
    The interaction between environmental policies and trade policies emerged as an issue at the end of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1994.