North-South Trade, Property Rights and the Dynamics of Environmental Resources

THE ENVIRONMENT AFTER RIO, 1994

8 Pages Posted: 9 Apr 2009

Date Written: 1994

Abstract

The global environment can be described by the physical dynamics and the economic use of the earth's resources. It has become. to a certain extent, a North-South issue.1

Developing countries tend to specialize in the production and the export of goods which deplete environmental resources such as rain forests, or resources such as petroleum and coal whose combustion leads to the emission of greenhouse gases. Currently two-thirds of the exports from Latin America are resources, and resources make an even higher proportion of Africa's exports. Most of these resources are imported and consumed by the industrial countries.

Suggested Citation

Chichilnisky, Graciela, North-South Trade, Property Rights and the Dynamics of Environmental Resources (1994). THE ENVIRONMENT AFTER RIO, 1994, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1374647

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