Sustainable medicine: good for the environment, good for people

Sustainable medicine: good for the environment, good for people.

GMOs: A Good but Battered Means for Sustainable Production Intensification

FAO promotes Sustainable Production Intensification (SPI), which consists of a technology menu for optimizing crop production per unit area, taking into consideration the range of sustainability aspects including potential and/or real social, political, economic and environmental impacts. The author suggests that Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) cropping is not only well aligned to SPI but a...

Good Medicine

E arlier this year, I ran into a good friend at an international meeting. I hadn't seen him for quite a while, so I was surprised to see how he had appeared to age. He was walking slowly and looked frail and tired. He spoke slowly and softly, and while his mind was still " with it, " he appeared to be struggling to keep up with the events and issues surrounding him. I wanted to ask him if every...

Can trade be good for the environment?

We analyze the impact of trade in a differentiated good on environmental policy when there is local and transboundary pollution. In autarky, the (equivalent) pollution tax is set equal to the marginal damage from own emissions. If the strategic policy instrument is a tax, leakage occurs under trade and tends to lower the tax. The net terms of trade effect, due to the exportable and importable v...

Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique and composition effects and then examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations from the Global Environment Monitoring Project. We find international trade creates relatively smal...