| Abstract: | Globalization—viewed as a process of economic integrationthat embraces governance as well as markets—could leadto worldwide convergence toward higher or lower environmentalquality, or to environmental polarization in which the ‘greening’of the global North is accompanied by the ‘browning’of the global South. The outcome will not be dictated by aninexorable logic. Rather it will depend on how the opportunitiescreated by globalization alter balances of power within countriesand among them. |
