Product Description

A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment. It examines the consequences of existing multilateral investment and trade regimes, including the WTO and the MAI for the environment, and asks how they should be reformed to protect it. In doing so, the text shows how these regimes can be "greened" without erecting protectionist barriers to trade that frustrate the development aspirations of poorer countries. The solution seeks to offer a way out of one of the most difficult dilemmas in international policy: how investment and trade can protect the environment without encouraging protectionism by the industrialized world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1921127 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

Review
"Neumayer focuses on the trinity of investment, trade, and environmental protection. In Part 1 he rightly notes that progress in international environmental affairs will only be made when developing nations realize that environmental elements can be incorporated into multilateral investment and trade regimes without harming their development ambitions. In Part 2 he reports that available empirical evidence does not suggest that differences in environmental standards affect the allocation of investment. In Part 3 Neumayer argues that trade liberalization can hurt as well as help the cause of environmental protection. This is a useful introduction to the issues at the interface of investment, trade, and the environment. Academic collections, undergraduate level and up, and professional libraries." -- CHOICE

About the Author
Dr Eric Neumayer is a lecturer in environment and development at the London School of Economics