The IPE and the Environment:

Resources and Pollution

Resources

•Renewables and non-renewables

•Resource use and the environment

-The economics of extraction

-Environmental accounting

Over-exploitation of Resources

•Population and resource use

-Food

-Other resources

•International trade and resource use

-Increased demand

-Increased access

•Government capacity and corruption

Pollution

•Local pollution

-The environmental Kuznets curve

•Global pollution

-The oceans

-Ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gasses

•Kyoto and climate change

•GMOs

International Institutions and the Environment

-Economic institutions

-The WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank

•Environmental institutions

-UNEP

-MEAs

•Sustainable development