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Title Linking trade, environment, and social cohesion : NAFTA experiences, global challenges / edited by John J. Kirton, Virginia W. Maclaren
Published Aldershot : Ashgate, [2002]
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Description xxv, 379 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Global environmental governance series
Global environmental governance series.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of Tables viii -- List of Figures ix -- List of Contributors xi -- Preface and Acknowledgements xix -- List ofAbbreviations xxiii -- 1 Forging the Trade-Environment-Social Cohesion Link: -- Global Challenges, North American Experiences -- John J. Kirton and Virginia W. Maclaren 1 -- PART I: LINKING TRADE, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIAL VALUES: -- THE GLOBALAND NAFTA EXPERIENCES -- 2 From Trade Liberalisation to Sustainable Development: -- The Challenges of Integrated Global Governance -- Pierre Marc Johnson 27 -- 3 The New Interface Agenda among Trade, Environment, -- and Social Cohesion -- William A. Dymond 37 -- 4 Embedded Ecologism and Institutional Inequality: -- Linking Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion in the G8 -- John J. Kirton 45 -- 5 Winning Together: The NAFTA Trade-Environment Record -- John J. Kirton 73 -- PART II: INVESTOR PROTECTION: EVALUATING THE -- NAFTA CHAPTER 11 MODEL -- 6 The Masked Ball of NAFTA Chapter 11: Foreign Investors, -- Local Environmentalists, Government Officials, and Disguised Motives -- Sanford E. Gaines 103 -- -- -- -- 7 Environmental Expropriation under NAFTA Chapter 11: -- The Phantom Menace -- Julie Soloway 131 -- 8 Investment and the Environment: -- Multilateral and North American Perspectives -- Konrad von Moltke 145 -- PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: -- EVALUATING THE NAFTA COMMISSION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL -- COOPERATION MODEL -- 9 Stormy Weather: The Recent History of the Citizen Submission Process -- of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation -- Christopher Tollefson 153 -- 10 Public Participation within NAFTA's Environmental Agreement: -- The Mexican Experience -- Gustavo Alanis Ortega 183 -- 11 Article 14-15 of the North American Agreement on Environmental -- Cooperation: Intent of the Founders -- Serena Wilson 187 -- PART IV: WORKER PROTECTION: EVALUATING THE -- NAFTA COMMISSION FOR LABOR COOPERATION MODEL -- 12 Civil Society and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation -- Kevin Banks 195 -- 13 Giving Teeth to NAFTA's Labour Side Agreement -- Jonathan Graubart 203 -- PART V: ASSESSING ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS: -- LOCAL, NORTH AMERICAN, AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES -- 14 Understanding the Environmental Effects of Trade: -- Some Lessons from NAFTA -- Scott Vaughan 225 -- -- -- -- 15 Sustainability Assessments of Trade Agreements: Global Approaches -- Sarah Richardson 243 -- 16 Concern for the Environmental Effects of Trade in Canadian -- Communities: Evidence from Local Indicator Reports -- Virginia W. Maclaren 265 -- 17 Using Indicators to Engage the Community in Sustainability Debates -- Noel Keough 277 -- 18 Development and Usability of a System for Environment -- and Health Indicators: A Case Study -- David L. Buckeridge and Carl G. Amrhein 297 -- PART VI: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS -- 19 Fix It or Nix It? Will the NAFTA Model Survive? -- Sylvia Ostry 319 -- 20 Conclusions -- Virginia W. Maclaren and John J. Kirton 325 -- Bibliography 333 -- Index 363
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT North American Free Trade Agreement (1992 December 17) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92099941
Subject Economic development -- Social aspects -- North America.
International trade -- Social aspects.
Free trade -- North America.
Sustainable development -- North America.
Economic development -- Social aspects.
Author Kirton, John J.
Maclaren, Virginia White, 1953-
LC no. 2002100838
ISBN 0754619346 :
Other Titles North American Free Trade Agreement experiences, global challenges