Summary and Conclusions: Adjusting Trade Liberalization and Environmental Protection Demands in an Era of Globalization

Abstract

The story told in this book is one about public policy adjustment to environmental and economic change. The phenomenon analysed and partly explained is the outcome of such adjustment activity at the national level.

Drafts of the chapter were presented at the Roskilde University Centre, Department of Geography and International Development Studies research workshop in Gilleleje, Denmark on 9 December 1998 at a seminar co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Centre on Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo on 22 April 1999. Particular thanks are due to John Degnbold Martinussen, Benedicte Bull and an anonymous referee for their useful comments and suggestions. The contents of the chapter are, however, the sole responsibility of the authors.