Environmental Trade Disputes and the WTO
Book Summary & Chapter Contents
Book Summary
This book
examines the role of international trade and the disputes arising out of
national and international attempts to protect the local/regional/global
environment in the context of international trade policies and practices. Typical cases are illustrative of the poor
state of recognition of environmental interdependencies in the process of
promoting free trade under the WTO framework.
Trade liberalization for its own sake is not entirely meaningful just as
environmental protection in its extreme form may also be inefficient. Adoption of ecosystems approach, application
of the Precautionary Principle, Polluter Pays Principle, and the Trust Law are
seen as some of the elements of the required integration of economic and environmental
aspects of customary international public laws and emerging new norms of
international environmental law. These
elements are required for improved resolution of environmental trade disputes
under the WTO regime.
Contents
1.
Environmental
Perspectives on Trade or Trade Perspectives on the Environment?
2.
The
World Trade Organization and the Environmental Provisions
3.
The
Tuna-Dolphin Case: A Re-evaluation
4.
The
Shrimp-Turtle Case: Shifting Rules of
the Game
5. International Trade and the Global Environment: Dispute Resolution Proposals