Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism : Rethinking the Trade and Environment Conflict

Half Title Page -- Half Title verso -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- 1. Deconstructing the Trade and Environment Conflict: A Pluralistic Perspective -- 1.1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.2 A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE TRADE-ENVIRONMENT NEXUS -- 1.3 INTERIM CONCLUSIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK -- 2. The Trade-Environment Problematic: Fantasy or Reality? -- 2.1 THE TRADE-ENVIRONMENT CONFLICT IN THE EYES OF MODERN ECONOMICS: CRITIQUE AND REFLECTION -- 2.2 THE ASYMMETRY BETWEEN THE TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DOMAINS -- 3. The GATT/WTO Trade-Environment Jurisprudence -- 3.1 THE MERCANTILIST ETHOS OF THE GATT AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 3.2 THE LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS OF THE MERCANTILIST ETHOS -- 3.3 THE WTO ENVIRONMENTAL JURISPRUDENCE -- 3.4 GOING FURTHER: GUIDELINES TO ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITISATION OF THE WTO AND REMAINING BARRIERS -- 3.5 ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITISATION: INSTITUTIONAL SOLUTIONS -- 3.6 EPILOGUE: AFTER CANCUN? -- 4. Science, Standardisation and the SPS/TBT Agreements -- 4.1 THE SOCIAL MILIEU OF THE SPS AND TBT AGREEMENTS: THE UNAVOIDABLE RISK OF BLAME -- 4.2 THE DRIVE FOR HARMONISATION: A QUESTIONABLE PATH FOR LEGITIMACY -- 4.3 DETERMINING THE LIMITS OF STATE REGULATORY POWER -- 4.4 TOWARD AN ALTERNATIVE DISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK -- 5. Environmental Conflicts in the Private Realm of International Construction Law -- 5.1 THE POLITICS OF ECOLOGICAL CO-EXISTENCE -- 5.2 THE FEATURES OF THE LEX CONSTRUCTIONIS AS AN AUTONOMOUS LEGAL SYSTEM -- 5.3. ENVIRONMENTAL CLOSURE AND STANDARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS -- 5.4 THE ENGINEERING ETHOS AND OTHER "CONTRIBUTING" FACTORS -- 6. Transnational Environmental Litigation -- 6.1 THE PHENOMENON OF TRANSNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LITIGATION.