Beyond the Barricades: The Americas Trade And Sustainable Development Agenda

by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Editor), Maria Leichner Reynal

Beyond the barricades surrounding recent economic meetings, a constructive agenda is being developed on trade and sustainability issues in the Americas. This book brings together a diversity of perspectives and expertise on environment and development issues from governments, civil society and businesses in the Western Hemisphere. The book reviews specific areas where trade, environment and social policies intersect in the Americas, proposing that more integrated laws and policies could strengthen hemispheric progress toward sustainable development. It identifies new means of implementing this agenda, including changes to proposed trade agreements such as the FTAA, and ways to strengthen environmental and social cooperation mechanisms in the region, laying out future directions for law and policy in the region. The volume incorporates a variety of perspectives with policy options and research results from across the Americas. Critical yet constructive, it will appeal to students and scholars interested in the Americas integration process, as well as to development professionals and NGOs on the ground.

351 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2005

About the author

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, University of Cambridge
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge, and Full Professor of Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, also a founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance, Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Director of Studies and Law Fellow in Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. Author or editor of over twenty books and 120 papers, she edits the Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development series and advises countries and international organizations on treaty commitments on climate change, biodiversity, trade and investment, and other Sustainable Development Goals.