Globalization and increasing international trade are becoming a fact of life, bringing increasing tensions and conflicts over their impacts on societies, livelihoods and the environment. The impacts are felt in industrialized countries but are often most harsh in developing economies. The growing debate involves not only professional economists and lawyers, but a broad range of academic disciplines as well as civil society and citizens' groups around the world. This text presents the most important contributions to the debate, and to the understanding of how sustainable international trade...
Globalization and increasing international trade are becoming a fact of life, bringing increasing tensions and conflicts over their impacts on societi...
Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world's most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone. This book focuses on environmental and developmental law, and assesses how far and how successfully intergovernmental organizations have responded to the challenge.
Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world's most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone. This book focuses...
Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world's most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone: it depends on international coordination and action. Greening International Institutions, the latest in a series of highly-acclaimed publications devoted to environmental and developmental law, assesses how far and how successfully intergovernmental organizations have responded to the challenge. The organizations analyzed include: the UN General Assembly, the new Commission for Sustainable Development, UNEP, UNDP and UNCTAD, WTO, GATT, NAFTA, the Bretton Woods...
Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world's most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone: it depends on int...