The Shadow Ecology of the European Union: the Environmental Consequences of European Integration for the Ukraine

• Autorzy: Sergey Velychko
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Environmental policy of the developed countries may have significant influence on the state of the natural environment in developing and transitional countries through foreign trade. "Hard" environmental policy significantly diminishes profits of "dirty" production and stimulates their partial shutdown or transfer into developing countries with a "softer" environmental policy in order to raise their revenues. This process is characteristic to the Japanese and USA economies and is called "Shadow Ecology". But the European Union has its own type of "shadow ecology" that is determined by the relationships between the EU States and transitional countries of Eastern Europe. Two features are important here: - EU countries use processed raw materials produced in transitional countries but do not build their own enterprises like in developing countries, where they realize industrial eco-restructuring through direct investments; - dirty production in transitional countries is greatly dependent on the state environmental policy, which is in force and may become "harder" any time. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Economic and political integration of Europe; International ecological cooperation; EU environmental policy

PL

Integracja gospodarcza i polityczna Europy; Międzynarodowa współpraca ekologiczna; Polityka ekologiczna UE

• Czasopismo: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Rocznik: 2002
• Numer: Vol. 2
• Strony: 117--124

Twórcy

autor

Sergey Velychko

• Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

Bibliografia

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