Opis: Greening Trade - Eric Neumayer, John Neumayer

A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment. It examines the consequences of existing multilateral investment and trade regimes, including the WTO and the MAI for the environment, and asks how they should be reformed to protect it. In doing so, the text shows how these regimes can be greened without erecting protectionist barriers to trade that frustrate the development aspirations of poorer countries. The solution seeks to offer a way out of one of the most difficult dilemmas in international policy: how investment and trade can protect the environment without encouraging protectionism by the industrialized world. "Neumayer focuses on the trinity of investment, trade, and environmental protection. In Part 1 he rightly notes that progress in international environmental affairs will only be made when developing nations realize that environmental elements can be incorporated into multilateral investment and trade regimes without harming their development ambitions. In Part 2 he reports that available empirical evidence does not suggest that differences in environmental standards affect the allocation of investment. In Part 3 Neumayer argues that trade liberalization can hurt as well as help the cause of environmental protection. This is a useful introduction to the issues at the interface of investment, trade, and the environment. Academic collections, undergraduate level and up, and professional libraries." -- CHOICEIPreface * Introduction * Part One: Foundations - Globalization: Investment, Trade and the Environment in an Integrating World Economy * The Current Multilateral Trade and Investment Regimes * Part Two: Investment - Pollution Havens: Do Developing Countries Set Inefficient Environmental Standards to Attract Foreign Investment? * Regulatory Chill: Do Developed Countries Fail to Raise Environmental Standards Because of Feared Capital Flight? * Roll-back: Do Foreign Investors Use Investor-to-State Dispute Settlement to Knock Down Environmental Regulations? * A Case Study: The Failed Attempt to Conclude a Multilateral Agreement on Investment * Part Three: Trade - Trade Liberalization and the Environment * GATT/WTO Dispute Settlement and the Environment * WTO Rules and Multilateral Environmental Agreements * Conclusions and Summary of Policy Recommendations * Appendix: Environmental Provisions in Regional and Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements * Notes * References * Index

Szczegóły: Greening Trade - Eric Neumayer, John Neumayer

Tytuł: Greening Trade
Autor: Eric Neumayer, John Neumayer
Producent: Earthscan
ISBN: 9781853837883
Rok produkcji: 2001
Ilość stron: 240
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.43 kg

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