Trade and Environment

Edited by John W. Maxwell, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, US and ZEI, Germany and Rafael Reuveny, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Bloomington, US

• Contents: 1. IntroductionPart I: The Trade–Environment Debate in Context: The US Decision on Kyoto2. The Kyoto Protocol: A Flawed Concept3. You’re Getting Warmer: The Most Feasible Path for Addressing Global Climate Change Does Run through KyotoPart II: Trade and Environmental Policies4. Trade, the Harmonization of Environmental Policy and the Subsidiarity Principle5. Trade and the Environment in the Perspective of EU Enlargement6. Can Environmental Regulations be Compatible with Higher International Competitiveness? Some New Theoretical Insights Part III: Environmental Policy Concerns in the Context of EU Enlargement 7. Environmental Implications of EU Enlargement: Lessons from the Southern Member States and Preliminary Evidence from Poland8. Strategic Environmental Policies with Foreign Direct Investment: Implications of European Enlargement9. External Actors and their Prospective Roles in Environmental Cleanup in Central and Eastern Europe10. How Can Economies in Transition Pursue Emissions Trading or Joint Implementation?Part IV: Economic and Environmental Policies in Transition Economies11. Energy and Sustainability in Central Europe: A Decade of Transition in Review12. Reorganization of Environmental Policy in Russia: The Decade of Success and Failures in Implementation and Prospective Quests13. Policy in Transition: A New Framework for Russia’s Climate Policy Index