Though the recent process of globalisation of international markets succeeded in sustaining the economic growth of the countries that actively participated in this process, the available empirical evidence suggests that it was accompanied by a world-wide increase of environmental degradation and...

This paper aims to analyze the implications for environmental sustainability of the recent phase of globalization. This phase, here called "new globalization", has been specifically characterized by the spreading of the new economy that has accelerated the globalization of markets, and by the...