An Asian Perspective on a World Environmental Organization

Jha, Raghbendra; Panda, Manoj; Ranade, Ajit

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“…Thus there is a need for issue linkage in the area of environmental negotiation. Jha et al (2002) indicate some areas where such issue linkage is possible and, indeed, could be welfare improving for Asian developing countries. The issues with which international environmental negotiations could be linked include aid to developing countries to underpin their domestic internalisation efforts, trade concessions by developed countries and cash transfers.…”

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“…internalising local environmental externalities; trade concessions and side payments could be pursued. A possible institutional mechanism in support of such issue linkage is a regional (Asia-Pacific) environmental organisation along the lines of the World Environmental Organisation discussed in Jha et al (2002), Lodefalk and Whalley (2002), and Whalley and Zissimos (2000, 2002.…”

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Alleviating Environmental Degradation in the Asia-Pacific Region: International Co-operation and the Role of Issue-linkage

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2005

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This paper argues that the most important environmental challenge within the Asia-Pacific region is that of uninternalised externalities. While developed countries have put in place mechanisms of governance and regulatory structures that internalise most of their domestic environmental external effects the same cannot be said of domestic environmental external effects of developing countries and transnational environmental external effects, although these are some of the most pressing environmental problems facing the countries in the region. Whereas developing countries are paying a high price for uninternalised domestic externalities they and the developed countries have an important stake in finding internalisation solutions to transnational environmental externalities. The paper argues that absence of linkage among these issues and other outcomes of keen interest to developing countries (viz. trade negotiations and the possibility of side payments) has made progress in this area impossible. Hence there is a case for institutional innovation to facilitate Coasian deal-making among these countries through issue linkage.

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Alleviating Environmental Degradation in the Asia-Pacific Region: International Co-operation and the Role of Issue-linkage

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2005

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Regional Versus Multilateral Solutions to Transboundary Environmental Problems: Insights from the Southeast Asian Haze

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2001

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At an analytical level, economists have often categorised the international dimensions of environmental problems and policies as being national (or competitiveness), psychological (as opposed to physical) and transboundary (global) in nature. Focusing on transboundary pollution problems, the reasons why a multilateral approach among sovereign nations to solve such global externalities may be difficult are discussed within a simple analytical framework. The paper examines the Southeast Asian experience at a regional approach to tackling the haze problem due to the Indonesian forest fires. It goes on to explore multilateral policy options and constraints for dealing with such transboundary environmental pollution problems. Copyright Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2001.

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Sustainability: Behavior, Property Rights and Economic Growth

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2000

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An Asian Perspective on a World Environmental Organization

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Alleviating Environmental Degradation in the Asia-Pacific Region: International Co-operation and the Role of Issue-linkage

Alleviating Environmental Degradation in the Asia-Pacific Region: International Co-operation and the Role of Issue-linkage

Regional Versus Multilateral Solutions to Transboundary Environmental Problems: Insights from the Southeast Asian Haze

Sustainability: Behavior, Property Rights and Economic Growth

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