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Review: The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law By Pierre M. Johnson and Andre Beaulieu Reviewed by Graham E.L. Holton La Trobe University, Melbourne Johnson, Pierre M. and Beaulieu, Andre. The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996. 413pp., index. US $30.00 paper ISBN: 1-55963- 468-5. Recycled, acid-free paper. Two international experts examine how the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) makes a groundbreaking attempt to integrate the social agenda of trade with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), thereby transforming the international trade and environment debate. The authors analyze the environmental dispute settlement process through NAAEC, allowing a more significant role for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in international environmental forums. The centerpiece of NAAEC is the Commission on Environmental Cooperation (CEC) with its environmental cooperation mandate, which provides windows for increased communication with the public and a broader constituency of NGOs. The provisions of NAFTA that affect environmental policies and their implementation are discussed, with preliminary conclusions on the environmental record of NAFTA/NAAEC. The analysis of NAFTA is covered in five parts, with six appendices covering the consultation and resolution of disputes in the NAFTA agreement. A large bibliography which includes international treaties, government reports and relevant legal cases, extensive footnotes, contents list, and a thoroughly cross- referenced index make this book practical for research. This highly authoritative study will prove invaluable to environmentalists, consultants, development economists, NGOs and students, or to anyone who wants a better understanding of the procedures dealing with environmental dispute resolutions concerning NAFTA. P.M. Johnson, senior counsel with Guy & Gilbert in Montreal and professor of law at McGill University, and A. Beaulieu, a senior policy analyst in the Office of the Privy Council, Ottawa, have written a
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Two international experts examine how the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) makes a groundbreaking attempt to integrate the social agenda of trade with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), thereby transforming the international trade and environment debate
A large bibliography which includes international treaties, government reports and relevant legal cases, extensive footnotes, contents list, and a thoroughly crossreferenced index make this book practical for research. This highly authoritative study will prove invaluable to environmentalists, consultants, development economists, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and students, or to anyone who wants a better understanding of the procedures dealing with environmental dispute resolutions concerning NAFTA
The treaty goes further than other treaties in that the NAAEC's dispute settlement mechanism provides that a party refusing to comply with the panel's determination be subjected to fines or trade sanctions
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Two international experts examine how the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) makes a groundbreaking attempt to integrate the social agenda of trade with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), thereby transforming the international trade and environment debate. Title The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law Review: The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law
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