The role of environmental factors in the New Economic Geography framework

Diego Azqueta () and Gonzalo Delacámara Andrés
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Gonzalo Delacámara Andrés: Universidad de Alcalá

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2004, issue 4, 145-175

Abstract: This paper analyses a number of outcomes that the increase in the social demand for a higher environmental quality may have on the patterns of spatial specialization, irrespective of the scale of analysis. This paper aims at exploring how, together with new possibilities for backward regions, some sub-optimal solutions can also be found from a social viewpoint. On the other hand, we reflect on how an efficient allocation of resources (internalising environmental considerations), could well be incompatible with the dismantling of protectionism within the agricultural sectors of developed countries. The impact on biological diversity is specifically studied.

Keywords: International trade; environment; spatial specialization; ecological footprint; ecological debt; genuine savings; biological diversity conservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F18 Q57 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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