International Trade Policies and Climate Change Governance

P. K. Rao

ISBN 10: 3642252516 / ISBN 13: 9783642252518

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2012, 2012

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Neuware -This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these. A number of pragmatic measures are proposed with reference to the WTO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regimes, which are expected to contribute toward enhanced climate change governance, as well as promoting international trade.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 64 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: International Trade Policies and Climate Change Governance
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Jan 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642252516
• ISBN 13: 9783642252518
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these. A number of pragmatic measures are proposed with reference to the WTO and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regimes, which are expected to contribute toward enhanced climate change governance, as well as promoting international trade.

About the Author

The author has published several books and papers on climate change, trade and sustainable development; he teaches at Edward Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Among the book publications are. "The Architecture of Green Economic Policies" (Heidelberg: Springer, 2010), "International Environmental Law and Economics" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), "The World Trade Organization and the Environment" (London: Macmillan, 2000), "Sustainable Development: Economic and Policy" (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).