Trade and the Environment Economic, Legal and Policy Perspectives

Contents

Part 1 Economic perspectives: the problem of social cost, R.H. Coase; an overview of methodological approaches in the analysis of trade and environment, Cees van Beers and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh; the interface between environmental and trade policies, John Whalley; trade measures for environment - a nearly empty box?, Arvind Subramanian; toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship, Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde; environmental regulations and international competitiveness - strategies for Canada's forest products industry, Alan M. Rugman; environmental regulation and the competitiveness of US manufacturing - what does the evidence tell us?, Adam B. Jaffe et al. Part 2 Legal perspectives: trade, environment and sustainable development - a primer, Robert Housman and Durwood Zaelke; world trade rules and environmental policies - congruence or conflict?, John H. Jackson; NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Co-operation - a new model for international collaboration on trade and the environment, J. Owen Saunders; trade and environment - some lessons from Castlemaine Tooheys and Danish Bottles, Damien Geradin and Raoul Stewardson; the fair trade-free trade debate - trade labour and the environment, Robert Howse and Michael J. Trebilcock; differences in national environmental standards - the level playing field dimension, Robert E. hudec. Part 3 Policy perspectives: the demand for international regimes, Robert O. Keohane; trade measures and the design of international regimes, Steve Charnovitz; trade protectionism and environmental regulations - the new non-tariff barriers, C. Ford Runge; environmental protection and the creation of a single European market, David Vogel; the North American Free Trade Agreement's lessons for reconciling trade and the environment, Robert Housman; North American environment co-operation - bilateral, trilateral, multilateral, Don Munton and John Kirton.

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