NAFTA and Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

History, Experience, and Prospects for Reform
Redaktion: Kong, Hoi L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its companion agreement, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), provide important and often underappreciated protection for the environmental laws of the Party states: Canada, Mexico, and the United States. On the twentieth anniversary of NAFTA's ratification, this book assesses the current state of environmental protection under those agreements. Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and regulators from all three Party states, it outlines the scope and process of NAFTA and NAAEC, their impact on specific environmental issues, and paths to reform. It includes analyses of the impact of the agreements on such matters as bioengineered crops in Mexico, assessment of marine environmental effects, potential lessons for China, climate change, and indigenous rights. Together, the chapters of this book represent an important contribution to the global conversation concerning international trade agreements and sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316349380
• Artikelnr.: 52939704

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. NAFTA and sustainable development L. Kinvin Wroth and Hoi L.
Kong; Part I. Process - NAFTA and NAAEC: 1. Forgotten promises: neglected
environmental provisions of the NAFTA and the North American Agreement on
Environmental Cooperation Geoffrey Garver; 2. Should citizens expect
procedural justice in nonadversarial processes? Spotlighting the regression
of the citizen submission process from NAAEC to CAFTA-DR Giselle Davidian;
3. Choosing the right whistle: the development of the concept of
environmental law under the citizen submissions process Paolo Solano; 4.
Pending proceedings in the new guidelines for submissions on enforcement
matters: an improved regression? Montserrat Rovalo; 5. Form over substance:
procedural hurdles to the NAAEC citizen submission process Leslie Welts;
Part II. Specific Environmental Issues under NAFTA and NAAEC: 6. Downward
harmonization: Mexico's industrial livestock revolution Pamela Vesilind; 7.
Agricultural biotechnology and NAFTA: analyzing the impacts of US and
Canadian policies on Mexico's environment and agriculture Laurie
Beyranevand; 8. Assessing assessments of NAFTA's marine environment: the
commission for environmental cooperation meets the World Ocean Assessment
Betsy Baker; 9. Sustainable development, NAFTA, and water Katia Opalka; 10.
Indigenous peoples in North America: bridging the trade and environment gap
to ensure sustainability under NAFTA and NAAEC Nicole Schabus; 11. Climate
change, sustainable development, and NAFTA: regional policy harmonization
as a basis for sustainable development Freedom-Kai Phillips; 12. The
principle of public participation in NAFTA chapter 11 disputes Avidan Kent;
13. Preventing environmental deterioration from international trade and
investment: how China can learn from NAFTA's experience to strengthen
domestic environmental governance and ensure sustainable development Danni
Liang and Jingjing Liu; Part III. Proposals for Reform and Lessons Going
Forward: 14. Pathways of influence in the NAFTA regime and their
implications for domestic environmental policy-making in North America
Sébastien Jodoin; 15. The citizen submissions process in the North American
Agreement on Environmental Cooperation: theory and practice in deliberative
democratic institutional design for transnational institutions Hoi L. Kong;
16. Assessing ENGO influence in North American environmental politics: the
double grid framework Raul Pacheco-Vega.