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 could be achieved. It should provide a useful sourcebook and guide to academics, practitioners and activists involved with these issues.

About the author(s)

Kevin P Gallagher is a research associate at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
Jacob Werksman is a senior lawyer at the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development.

Contents

International Trade and Sustainable Development: An Integrative Approach * Part I: Economic Perspectives - Stuck in the Mud? Nation States, Globalization and the Environment * Globalization, Foreign Direct Investment and Sustainable Human Development * The Globalization of Market Failure? * Progress on the Environmental Kuznets Curve? * Towards a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship * WTO Rules and Multilateral Environmental Agreements * Seizing the Future: The South, Sustainable Development and International Trade * Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide * Part II: Legal Perspectives - Trade and Environment: How Real is the Debate? * Solving the Production and Processing Methods (PPMs) Puzzle * The Supervision of Health and Biosafety Regulation by World Trade Rules * Too Many Fishing Boats, Too Few Fish: Can trade Laws Trim Subsidies and Restore the Balance in Global Fisheries? * WTO Food and Agricultural Rules: Sustainable Agriculture and the Human Right to Food * International Investment and Sustainability: Options for Regime Formation * How Intellectual Property Could be a Tool to Protect Traditional Knowledge * Index