Module 1: Intersection Between Trade and Environment

Objective: To describe areas of intersection between trade and environment.

Overview: This module will explore the physical and economic relationship between trade and environment. In particular, it will focus on trends associated with increased trade activity and its impacts on environment and development.  This analysis will show that there is a pressing need to balance trade and environmental goals in order to achieve sustainable development.

Lecturers: Rodrigo Martínez , Andrés Sánchez

Topics covered in this module include

  • International trade

o Rationales for trade promotion

  • Environmental conditions

            o Costs of environmental degradation

            o Rationale for sound environmental management

  • Physical and economic relationship between environment and international trade

o  Overview of the relationship and impacts

o  Methodologies to assess impacts

o  Product effects

o  Scale effects

o  Structural effects

o  Direct effects

  • Introduction and Case Study on Water Supply & Sanitation and Free Trade Agreements

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