NAFTA and sustainable development : history, experience, and prospects for reform

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Davis Library (6th floor)

Call Number
KDZ944 .N34 2015
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Available

Law Library — 3rd Floor Collection (3rd floor)

Call Number
KDZ944 .N34 2015
Status
Available

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Summary

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.

Contents

Forgotten promises : neglected environmental provisions of the NAFTA and the North American agreement on environmental cooperation / Geoffrey Garver -- Should citizens expect procedural justice in nonadversarial processes? spotlighting the regression of the citizen submission process from NAAEC to CAFTA-DR / Giselle Davidian -- Choosing the right whistle : the development of the concept of environmental law under the citizen submissions process / Paolo Solano -- Pending proceedings in the new guidelines for submissions on enforcement matters : an improved regression? / Montserrat Rovalo -- Form over substance : procedural hurdles to the NAAEC citizen submission process / Leslie Welts -- Downward harmonization : Mexico's industrial livestock revolution / Pamela Vesilind -- Agricultural biotechnology and NAFTA : analyzing the impacts of U.S. and Canadian policies on Mexico's environment and agriculture / Laurie Beyranevand -- Assessing assessments of NAFTA's marine environment : the commission for environmental cooperation meets the world ocean assessment / Betsy Baker -- Sustainable development, NAFTA, and water / Katia Opalka -- Indigenous peoples in North America : bridging the trade and environment gap to ensure sustainability under NAFTA and NAAEC / Nicole Schabus -- Climate change, sustainable development, and NAFTA : regional policy harmonization as a basis for sustainable development / Freedom-Kai Phillips -- The principle of public participation in NAFTA Chapter 11 disputes / Avidan Kent -- 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 -- Pathways of influence in the NAFTA regime and their implications for domestic environmental policy-making in North America / Sébastien Jodoin -- 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 -- Assessing engo influence in North American environmental politics : the double grid framework / Raul Pacheco-Vega.

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