The present paper develops a mechanism of technological transformation essentially built on two premises, namely, that most technologies needed for today's poor economies to get out of backwardness are already available in advanced industrialized economies, and that there is a circularity...

This paper tests whether adopting the international norm ISO 14001 significantly impacts environmental performance in Quebec's pulp and paper industry. Using monthly data collected from 37 plants between 1997 and 2003, we show that: i) ISO certification does not lead to a reduction in total...

Recently, the issue of worldwide environmental quality has been discussed in the context of trade liberalization on a global scale. Two diametrically opposite tenets have been recorded. According to one tenet - the cons-increasing opportunities for profitable exchange created by trade...