Globalization and Sustainable Development: Case Study on International Transport and Sustainable Development. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Köhler, Jonathan
• Other Names: Olsson Lennart guest-editor.; Hourcade Jean-Charles guest-editor.; Köhler Jonathan guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of environment & development. Volume 23:Number 1(2014:Mar.)
• Page Start: 66
• Page End: 100
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: transport -- sustainable development -- transitions -- shipping -- aviation; Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Periodicals; Environmental policy -- Economic aspects -- Periodicals; 338.9005
• DOI: 10.1177/1070496513507260
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1070-4965

Abstract

This article assesses the potential contribution for international shipping and long-haul aviation to contribute to sustainable development (SD). The trade literature shows that newly industrializing countries are benefitting from international trade for export-led growth. However, the least developed countries with limited access to international trade networks do not participate in the new global production networks. The World Trade Organization/General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change regimes do not have the development of more sustainable transport systems as a priority. In this sense, international transport remains on the fringes of the environment and development policy fields. Three transition pathways to SD have been developed: (a) information and telecommunications technologies leading to particip.ation of least developed countries in global production networks, (b) changes in social preferences toward a high priority for the environment, leading to an extensive growth in fair-trade networks and sustainable production and consumption, and (c) SD from economic growth in newly industrializing countries, with an increased priority placed on solving environmental problems.