خلاصة:
With the rise of growth and development processes and the formation of industrial development programs in developing countries, the environmental situation in these countries has become worrying. The market and the private sector have been unable to protect the environment and deal with the negative environmental consequences resulting from economic activities. The government, which is essentially responsible for protecting the environment as a public good, has either been unable to fulfill this inherent duty or has deepened and expanded the environmental crisis through its extensive and increasing intervention in economic activities. This article seeks to answer the important question of whether integration into the global market and the processes of economic globalization can affect and change the destructive role of the government in the environmental economy of developing countries, including Iran. In other words, will economic globalization be able to establish reconciliation and balance in the dual developmental and protective roles of the government in developing economies, including Iran? Accordingly, this article examines the improvement of the government's role in protecting the environment in the process of integration into the global economy.
ملخص الجهاز:
The Impact of Economic Globalization on the Role of Government in Political Economy Environment in Developing Countries: The Case of Iran ∗ Ali Gholampour PhD in International Relations, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran (Date of Receipt: 2005/05/31 – Date of Approval: 2005/06/15) Abstract: With the rise of growth and development processes and the formation of industrial development programs in developing countries, the environmental situation in these countries has reached a worrying state.
In the present paper, an attempt will be made to answer this important question within the framework of the literature and theories of environmental political economy: Do the processes of economic globalization help improve the government's role in the environmental economy (trends of destruction and pollution) in developing economies (the case of Iran), or by perpetuating their traditional roles, which generally took shape in the post-World War II era, will they continue and strengthen destructive and polluting trends in these countries' economies?
As the World Bank emphasizes, in the process of economic globalization, not only has the role and importance of the government diminished, but it is the government that must: provide public goods and provide the necessary laws and regulations to protect the environment and prevent the formation of the tragedy of the commons and the paradise of pollution, and create the grounds for research and development to access environmentally friendly technology, clean production, green economy, and sustainable development through institutional reforms, combating corruption, improving the efficiency of the government apparatus, and optimal intervention in the economy, and generally creating a good and strong government (Good governance and strong state) and support it.
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