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Handbook on trade and the environment / edited by Kevin P. Gallagher.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Elgar original reference.
- Elgar original reference
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commerce--Environmental aspects.
- Commerce.
- International trade--Environmental aspects.
- International trade.
- Commercial policy--Environmental aspects.
- Commercial policy.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of expert voices commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. This title synthesizes the themes of the collection, which is divided into three sections: trade and environmental quality; trade and environmental politics, and trade and environmental policy.
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction: international trade and the environment; PART I TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; 1 Pre-empting NIS introductions: targeting policy; 2 International trade and global shipping; 3 The environmental Kuznets curve; 4 The pollution haven hypothesis; 5 Trade, natural resources and developing countries; 6 Foreign direct investment and sustainable industrial development; 7 Globalization and the environment: convergence or divergence?; 8 The relation between international trade and water resources management
- 9 The environmental costs of Mexico-USA maize trade under NAFTA10 The impact of open trade and investment regimes on environmental outcomes in East Asia's capitalist developmental states; 11 Foreign direct investment and clean technology leapfrogging in China; PART II TRADE ANDENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; 12 Global mechanisms for greening TNCs: inching towards corporate accountability?; 13 Civil society participation in trade policy-making in Latin America: the case of the environmental movement; 14 Trade conflict over genetically modified organisms
- 15 The politics of trade and environment in the European Union16 Environmental politics and global shipping trade: club goods as a solution to common-pool resource problems; 17 Fair trade, gender and the environment in Africa; 18 The global waste trade and environmental justice struggles; PART III TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; 19 An introduction to the trade and environment debate; 20 The WTO, services and the environment; 21 Biodiversity, intellectual property rights regime and indigenous knowledge system at the WTO: revisiting the unresolved issues
- 22 Investor rights and sustainable development23 Does environmental policy affect trade?The case of EU chemicals policy; 24 Environmental regulation, globalization andinnovation; 25 Trade and environment policy-making in theArab region; 26 Trade and environment institutions; 27 Redesigning the world's trading system forenvironmentally sustainable development; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-29553-5
- 9786612295539
- 1-84844-604-7
- OCLC:
- 476252761
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