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Books & Publications

Bridging the Divide: Toward a Consensus on Free Trade in the Americas
November 22-23, 2002 Washington, DC
by Daniel C. Esty and Monica Araya

Greening the Americas
NAFTA's Lessons for Hemispheric Trade
Edited by Carolyn Deere and Daniel Esty
MIT Press ISBN 0-262-54138-6

The interaction of international trade and the environment has been a topic of debate since the early 1990s. Many environmentalists complain that trade liberalization can run roughshod over efforts to control pollution and manage natural resources; advocates of free trade see green groups as protectionist. Arguing that attention to environmental issues is vital for realizing the potential economic benefits of international trade, this book offers an environmental agenda for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) that aims to ensure that economic integration in the Western Hemisphere proceeds in an environmentally sustainable and politically sensible manner.

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) attempted to address environmental concerns both in its text and through a "parallel agreement," the North American Agreement for Environmental Cooperation. Greening the Americas reviews the history of NAFTA's environmental negotiations and explores the treaty's economic and environmental impact, drawing lessons that can be applied to the ongoing FTAA negotiations. It critiques the environmental elements of the NAFTA model and examines their relevance to Latin America, highlighting those elements that should be included in future agreements and those that should be dropped. In particular, it explores Latin American countries' resistance to the linkage of trade and the environment and their resentment of the perceived heavy-handedness of the United States in NAFTA environmental

Contributors
Mónica Araya, Nicola Borregaard, Jake Caldwell, Laura Carlsen, Carolyn L. Deere, Daniel C. Esty, Richard Fisher, Kevin Gallagher, Eduardo Gitli, Ana Karina González-Lutzenkirchen, Javier Mancera, Howard Mann, Mario Matus, Frederick Mayer, Eric Miller, Carlos Murillo, Alejandro Nadal, Gustavo Alanis Ortega, Edda Rossi, Hilde Salazar, Marianne Schaper, Marie-Claire Cordonnier Segger, and Blanca Torres.

For sales information see: http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/

The Environment and Trade
Predicting a Course for the Western Hemisphere Using the North American Experience
Jan Gilbreath, CSIS/Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, June 2001

This was a joint publication of the Mexico Project, Americas Program Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Sustainable Americas Project.
For a pdf version click here: http://www.csis.org/americas/pubs/pp_gilbreath.pdf

"El Reto Ambiental de la Organización Mundial de Comercio"
Daniel C. Esty
Translated and Updated by Mónica Araya
(Editorial Gedisa, Barcelona, Marzo 2001)

This is an update and Spanish translation and of the book 'Greening the GATT. Trade, Environment and the Future' (Institute for International Economics, 1994).
http://www.iie.com/publications/publication.cfm?pub_id=40

For sales information go to: www.gedisa.com with information on Latin American distributors.

Other Publications from the Sustainable Americas Team

NAFTA and The Environment: Seven Years Later
POLICY ANALYSES IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 61
Institute for International Economics
Washington, DC (2000).
By Gary Hufbauer, Daniel C. Esty, Diana Orejas, Luis Rubio and Jeffrey J. Schott

In this seven-year analysis, the authors review NAFTA's environmental provisions, including a side accord'the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC), the situation at the US-Mexican border, and the trends in North American environmental policy. They emphasize that the environmental problems of North America were not the result of NAFTA and the NAAEC was not devised to address all of them. The authors recommend ways to better NAFTA's environmental dimension in all three countries, and improve living conditions where economic growth is greatest?at the US-Mexican border. It makes more sense to tackle the shortcomings than to lament NAFTA and the economic growth it promotes.

For sales information see: http://www.iie.com/publications/publication.cfm?pub_id=322

Comercio y Ambiente: Temas para Avanzar el Diálogo
Mónica Araya, Editor

Contributors:
Monica Araya, Andy Bowcott, James Cameron, Swee Chua, Daniel C. Esty, Per Fedriksson, Eduardo Gitli, Ana Karina González, Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz, Carlos Murillo, C. Ford Runge, Claude Rouam, José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Gary Sampson, Diana Tussie, Patricia Vázquez, René Vossenaar

For online version go to www.oas.org (go to Trade Unit's Publication section).

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