Trade, environment, and the millennium / edited by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sampson, Gary P.

Chambers, W. Bradnee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization.

International trade--Environmental aspects.

International trade.

Commercial policy--Environmental aspects.

Commercial policy.

Environmental policy--Economic aspects.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While many consider the World Trade Organization to be a major contributor to growth in world income, others --including many environmentalists --view it with suspicion and even animosity. With the failure to launch a new round of WTO negotiations in Seattle, dealing with the principal issues in the trade and environment debate will preoccupy negotiators at the next meeting of Trade Ministers in late 2001 in Qatar, and well into the millennium. This book provides an overview of the key issues for negotiation at the Qatar meeting and well beyond. The authors are world authorities in their respective areas. Their contributions to the first edition of Trade, Environment and the Millennium have been broadened and deepened in the light of the experience of the failed negotiations in Seattle, and other relevant developments in the WTO over the past two years. Gary P. Sampson is currently on leave from the WTO. He holds the posts of professor of International Economic Governance at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the United Nations University and visiting academic at the London School of Economics. W. Bradnee Chambers is an associate fellow and coordinator of the Environment, Multilateralism and Governance Programme of the Institute of Advanced studies, United Nations University, Tokyo.

Contents:

Trade and environment : strengthening complementarities and reducing conflicts / Rubens Ricupero

Trade and environment : how real is the debate? / Magda Shahin

Breaking the deadlock : a positive agenda on trade, environment, and development / Veena Jha and René Vossenaar

Environmental governance at the WTO : outreach to civil society / Daniel C. Esty

The WTO dispute settlement system / William J. Davey

Fishery subsidies and the WTO / David K. Schorr

Improving the agreement on sanitary and phytosanitary standards / Steve Charnovitz

Environmental labelling schemes revisited : WTO law and developing country implications / Arthur E. Appleton

The agreement on technical barriers to trade, the committee on trade and environment, and eco-labelling / Doaa Abdel Motaal

The precautionary principle / James Cameron

Environmental treaties and trade : multilateral environmental agreements and the multilateral trading system / Duncan Brack.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

92-808-7036-X

0-585-43413-1

OCLC:

923704447