Handbook on Trade and the Environment

Name: Handbook on Trade and the Environment
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
Price: 265.92 EUR
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Kevin P. Gallagher(Editor)

Edward Elgar Publishing

Will be published approx. on 28. December 2008

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Hardback

368 pages

978-1-84720-454-7 (ISBN)

€265.92incl. 7% vat

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In this comprehensive reference work, Kevin Gallagher has compiled a fresh and broad-ranging collection of expert voices commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. For over two decades policymakers and scholars have been struggling to understand the relationship between international trade in a globalizing world and its effects on the natural environment. The authors in this Handbook provide the tools to do just that.The editor's well-worked introduction synthesizes the emerging themes of the collection, which is divided into three sections: trade and environmental quality, trade and environmental politics, and trade and environmental policy. Topics include the extent to which trade liberalization creates 'pollution havens' where dirty industries flock to poorer countries with lax environmental standards, and conversely, how multinational corporations bring 'cleaner' environmental technologies to developing countries when they choose to move abroad. The volume also addresses the extent to which national environmental policy and/or global environmental agreements clash with the emerging rules of the World Trade Organization and whether such environmental policies hinder export competitiveness. Finally, numerous political economy analyses of the complex political coalitions that arise to adapt to and mitigate changes in trade and environmental policy are provided. In addition to broader overviews of the field, in-depth case studies of nations and regions are offered, including the United States, the European Union, China, India and Mexico as well East Asia, Latin America, and Africa.

The volume will serve as a guide for scholars new to the field as well as students and policy-makers needing a quick reference to the research on the interface between trade and the environment.

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'Handbook on Trade and the Environment is a good source for those looking for a better understanding of political issues, of legal debates, and of the state of discussion between government, industry, NGO, and private sector groups on topics that are not often treated elsewhere.' -- Judith M. Dean, World Trade Review 'I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with the interaction of trade and the environment.' -- - John Goodier, Reference Reviews

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Content

Contents:

Introduction: International Trade and the Environment
Kevin P. Gallagher

PART I: TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
1. Pre-empting NIS Introductions: Targeting Policy
Christopher Costello, Chad Lawley and Carol McAusland

2. International Trade and Global Shipping
James J. Corbett and James J. Winebrake

3. The Environmental Kuznets Curve
James Van Alstine and Eric Neumayer

4. The Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Brian R. Copeland

5. Trade, Natural Resources and Developing Countries
Edward B. Barbier

6. Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Industrial Development
Lyuba Zarsky

7. Globalization and the Environment: Convergence or Divergence?
James K. Boyce

8. The Relation Between International Trade and Water Resources Management
A.Y. Hoekstra

9. The Environmental Costs of Mexico-USA Maize Trade Under NAFTA
Timothy A. Wise

10. The Impact of Open Trade and Investment Regimes on Environmental Outcomes in East Asia's Capitalist Developmental States
Michael T. Rock and David Angel

11. Foreign Direct Investment and Clean Technology Leapfrogging in China
Kelly Sims Gallagher

PART II: TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
12. Global Mechanisms for Greening TNCs: Inching Towards Corporate Accountability?
Jennifer Clapp

13. Civil Society Participation in Trade Policy-making in Latin America: The Case of the Environmental Movement
Peter Newell

14. Trade Conflict Over Genetically Modified Organisms
Thomas Bernauer and Philipp Aerni

15. The Politics of Trade and Environment in the European Union
Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

16. Environmental Politics and Global Shipping Trade: Club Goods as a Solution to Common-Pool Resource Problems
Elizabeth R. DeSombre

17. Fair Trade, Gender and the Environment In Africa
Laura T. Raynolds and Jennifer A. Keahey

18. The Global Waste Trade and Environmental Justice Struggles
David Naguib Pellow

PART III: TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
19. An Introduction to the Trade and Environment Debate
Steve Charnovitz

20. The WTO, Services and the Environment
Robert K. Stumberg

21. Biodiversity, Intellectual Property Rights Regime, and Indigenous Knowledge System at the WTO: Revisiting the Unresolved Issues
Sachin Chaturvedi

22. Investor Rights and Sustainable Development
Chris Tollefson and W.A.W. Neilson

23. Does Environmental Policy Affect Trade? The Case of EU Chemicals Policy
Frank Ackerman

24. Environmental Regulation, Globalization and Innovation
Nicholas A. Ashford

25. Trade and Environment Policy-Making in the Arab Region
Carol Chouchani Cherfane

26. Trade and Environment Institutions
J. Samuel Barkin

27. Redesigning the World's Trading System for Environmentally Sustainable Development
Alejandro Nadal

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