Research Catalog

Title

Trade, globalization and sustainability impact assessment : a critical look at methods and outcomes / edited by Paul Ekins and Tancrède Voituriez.

Publication

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ekins, Paul.
• Voituriez, Tancrède, 1968-

Description

xviii, 348 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Commerce
• Sustainable development
• Globalization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Trade-induced changes in economic inequality : assessment issues and policy implications for developing countries -- Why did "development" entrap the Doha Round? -- Have sustainability impact assessment of trade agreements delivered on "development" issues : a reflexive analysis of the emergence and main contributions of trade SIAs -- Trade SIAs and the new challenges of trade liberalisation -- Investment : the context matters -- Sustainability impacts of liberalising trade in services : assessment methodologies and policy responses -- The impacts of liberalising trade in commodities -- The potential role for collective preferences in determining the rules of the international trading system -- Improving public participation in sustainability impact assessments of trade agreements -- Identifying trade victims -- Trade-induced changes in labour market inequalities : current findings and policy implications -- The value of value chains : spreading the gains from liberalization -- Collective preferences and international compensation -- Reducing the impacts of the production and trade of commodities -- The trade and environment relationships reconsidered : the case of regional trade and climate change.

ISBN

• 9781844076611 (hardback)
• 184407661X (hardback)

LCCN

• 2008051842
• 40017055476

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries