Handbook on Trade and the Environment

Kevin P. Gallagher1847204546, 978-1-84720-454-7

Table of contents :
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Figures and tables……Page 8
Contributors……Page 10
Abbreviations……Page 19
Introduction: international trade and the environment……Page 24
PART I TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY……Page 40
1 Pre-empting NIS introductions: targeting policy……Page 42
2 International trade and global shipping……Page 56
3 The environmental Kuznets curve……Page 72
4 The pollution haven hypothesis……Page 83
5 Trade, natural resources and developing countries……Page 94
6 Foreign direct investment and sustainable industrial development……Page 106
7 Globalization and the environment: convergence or divergence?……Page 120
8 The relation between international trade and water resources management……Page 139
9 The environmental costs of Mexico–USA maize trade under NAFTA……Page 149
10 The impact of open trade and investment regimes on environmental outcomes in East Asia’s capitalist developmental states……Page 159
11 Foreign direct investment and clean technology leapfrogging in China……Page 170
PART II TRADE ANDENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS……Page 180
12 Global mechanisms for greening TNCs: inching towards corporate accountability?……Page 182
13 Civil society participation in trade policy-making in Latin America: the case of the environmental movement……Page 194
14 Trade conflict over genetically modified organisms……Page 206
15 The politics of trade and environment in the European Union……Page 217
16 Environmental politics and global shipping trade: club goods as a solution to common-pool resource problems……Page 227
17 Fair trade, gender and the environment in Africa……Page 236
18 The global waste trade and environmental justice struggles……Page 248
PART III TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY……Page 258
19 An introduction to the trade and environment debate……Page 260
20 The WTO, services and the environment……Page 269
21 Biodiversity, intellectual property rights regime and indigenous knowledge system at the WTO: revisiting the unresolved issues……Page 290
22 Investor rights and sustainable development……Page 299
23 Does environmental policy affect trade?The case of EU chemicals policy……Page 310
24 Environmental regulation, globalization and innovation……Page 319
25 Trade and environment policy-making in theArab region……Page 331
26 Trade and environment institutions……Page 341
27 Redesigning the world’s trading system forenvironmentally sustainable development……Page 350
Index……Page 360