Mauritius and other Small Island Development States (SIDS) depend heavily on international trade. This presents challenges to environmental management. SIDS are vulnerable to all forms of environmental degradation, of which part are related to international trade, the focus of this chapter....

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face a discretely legal threat of ‘formal extinction’, due to the interaction between sea-level rise and prevailing interpretations of international law. As sea-levels continue to rise, many SIDS face the loss of inhabitable land. Under orthodox...

The world economy has undergone tremendous change during the past decade, with a range of emerging issues influencing global trade and coming to the fore in discussions among policy-makers and trade negotiators. Whether these issues will or should be addressed within the multilateral context as...