Nation States cannot survive in isolation. They are under a constant threat of security dilemma and compete to access or gain the sources. Countries are interdependent on one another for economic, social, cultural or institutional purposes. Inter dependency is usually associated with a trend...

What does global trade mean for the environment of any particular place? It can produce place-based transformations that are both positive and negative. The Kuznets curve is often touted as a solution that resolves the conflict between trade promotion and environmental protection by purporting...

This paper presents the unique experience of participation of Latin American stakeholders in the definition of European environmental standards, in the context of the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Program for coffee. The PEF Program is an ongoing process and the results will not be...

The recent years have seen an increase in tension over the interface between trade and environmental regulations, particularly because of the use of environmental measures to gain trade advantage. This debate centres to a large extent around the concerns of the developing countries, whose...

This paper argues in favor of broadening the trade and environment debate in the WTO to include a developmental perspective. It takes the US-Tuna II dispute between the United Sates and Mexico as an example to show the complex intertwinement between economic, environmental and developmental...