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Book Reference Manual for the Integrated Assessment of Trade related Policies

Download or read book Reference Manual for the Integrated Assessment of Trade related Policies written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reference Manual for the Integrated Assessment of Trade Related Policies

Download or read book Reference Manual for the Integrated Assessment of Trade Related Policies written by United Nations Environment Programme Staff and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is designed to help policy makers and practitioners conduct integrated assessments of the economic, environmental and social impacts of trade policy and trade liberalisation. As the manual is designed to help countries design assessments appropriate to their own circumstances, a number of approaches are presented, along with supporting evidence.

Book Handbook on Integrated Assessment of Trade related Measures

Download or read book Handbook on Integrated Assessment of Trade related Measures written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Summit on Sustainable Development has identified trade as a tool for achieving sustainable development and adopted a plan of action which includes elements aimed at reducing poverty, changing unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, and protecting and managing the environment and the natural resource base for economic and social development. This handbook focuses on the agricultural sector and presents a range of economic, environmental and social issues that can be taken into consideration when assessing the impact of trade-related policies.

Book Integrated Assessment of Trade Liberalization and Trade related Policies

Download or read book Integrated Assessment of Trade Liberalization and Trade related Policies written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2002 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document contains summaries of six country studies commissioned by UNEP, which seek to identify the environmental, social and economic effects of trade liberalisation policies. The studies examine: the fisheries sector in Argentina; the cotton industry in China, the banana trade in Ecuador; the export crop sector in Nigeria; the fisheries industry in Sengal; and the forestry sector in Tanzania. The six detailed country studies are also available separately.

Book Strategic Environmental Assessment

Download or read book Strategic Environmental Assessment written by Barry Sadler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends in application and experience in different contexts worldwide, providing in-depth coverage of the status of SEA systems, and practice in developed, transitional and developing countries by a range of development agencies. The book draws on a large body of published and unpublished material, and contributions from a wide range of individual experts, organizations and agencies. It provides an unparalleled and invaluable understanding of the emerging scope and potential of SEA and describes how, when and where it is being used. The sourcebook includes a probing review of concepts, terminology, approaches and tools of SEA, and a comparative analysis of the different types of existing SEA systems. The volume also contains many case examples illustrating SEA practice in different countries and contexts, a full set of references and a number of appendices containing source materials.

Book Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment

Download or read book Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment written by Hussein Abaza and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2004 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main objective of this volume is to provide information and guidance on EIA and SEA good practice with particular application to developing countries and countries in transition to market economies. It is intended to support local practitioners in the design and implementation of appropriate country specific EIA and SEA arrangements and in addressing emerging demands for a more integrated approach to decision-making in support of sustainable development.

Book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization

Download or read book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesias food security and rural development are based on rice production, which provides the bulk of farm incomes and agricultural employment. When trade liberalization has a negative impact on rice farmers net incomes it may cause a decline in rice production. This, in turn, has a number of environmental, social and economic consequences. The end goal of this Integrated Assessment is to develop policy packages based on the findings of the study to mitigate the negative effects of trade liberalization and trade-related policies and promote the positive ones.

Book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment Good Practice Guidance for Development Co operation

Download or read book DAC Guidelines and Reference Series Applying Strategic Environmental Assessment Good Practice Guidance for Development Co operation written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guidance volume explains the benefits of using SEA in development co-operation and sets out key steps for its application based on recent experiences.

Book The World Bank Legal Review  Volume 5

Download or read book The World Bank Legal Review Volume 5 written by Hassane Cisse and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the potentially transformative role of effective laws and legal institutions in providing people with more opportunity that is both inclusive and equitable.

Book Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Integrated Policymaking for Sustainable Development written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual draws on recent advances in public policy science as well as the decades-long experience of UNEP and other organizations in the field of sustainability-motivated policy assessment. By using a "building blocks" concept, it builds on the approach proposed in the UNEP Guidance Manual "Integrated Assessment: Mainstreaming Sustainability into Policymaking". It suggests using sustainable development as a major filter for prioritizing competing issues and for deciding on policy choices. The manual is expected to prove useful to policymakers and analysts, and will motivate its audience to adopt an integrated approach to policymaking and to play a role in a more intelligent management of human, financial and natural capital as a step towards achieving the Green Economy of the 21st century.

Book Sustainability Appraisal

Download or read book Sustainability Appraisal written by Barry Dalal-Clayton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA can be used to analyse and integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability into decision-making at all levels, from policy to project to investment, by government, business and industry, or international organizations. Distilling both published and unpublished materials, and with contributions from a range of leading experts, organizations and agencies, this book will be of significant value to professionals everywhere who are in need of a solid, reference guide to what constitutes SA practice and, more importantly, how and when it can be applied.

Book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization

Download or read book Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Trade Liberalization written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out an integrated assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts of rice production in Nigeria within the framework of trade liberalisation, particularly the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA). This is part of an UNEP research project which has also examined impacts on other rice producing countries including China, Colombia, Senegal and Indonesia.

Book Sustainable Trade and Poverty Reduction

Download or read book Sustainable Trade and Poverty Reduction written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2006 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication summarises the results of a capacity building process, which started in 2003, to integrate environmental, social and economic considerations in public policies. A particular focus is on promoting sustainable trade and poverty reduction. Nine countries participated in the process: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Russia, and Uganda. Policies subject to integrated assessment ranged from a sustainable development plan for the paving of highway in the Brazilian Amazon to Kenya's national energy policy. Governments and national research institutions were the drivers of this process and multi-stakeholder participation a prominent feature. Publishing Agency: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Book Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade

Download or read book Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade written by Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book provides an accessible insight into how the concept of sustainable development can be made operational through its translation into legal terms. Understood as a multidimensional legal principle, sustainable development facilitates coherent international law making. Using this notion as an analytical lens on the WTO Agreement on Agriculture, the book considers the unresolved question of what a sustainable and coherent agricultural trade agreement could look like.

Book Sustainable Development in World Trade Law

Download or read book Sustainable Development in World Trade Law written by Markus W. Gehring and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Johannesburg at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, over one hundred and eighty states assumed a collective responsibility to advance and strengthen the interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars of sustainable development economic development, social development, an environmental protection at the local, national, regional and global levels. This remarkable collection of papers, sponsored by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), demonstrates that sustainable development serves as a unifying concept with the potential to facilitate much-needed respect for international law and timely implementation of diverse and overlapping international commitments. It builds on the substance of a rich and complex debate at the intersections among economic, social, and environmental law, bringing together a broad cross-section of viewpoints and voices. The authors review recent developments in WTO discussions and negotiations, and in the recent decisions of the WTO Appellate Body, from a sustainable development law perspective. They also survey relevant new developments in trade and economic agreements at regional, inter-regional and bi-lateral levels. The various essays focus on sustainable development aspects of key issues in recent trade negotiations such as the Singapore Issues (investment, competition, trade facilitation, and government procurement), intellectual property rights, investment arbitration and the linkage between the WTO and multilateral environmental accords, (MEAand¿s).. Among the specific topics covered are the following: Emerging areas of law and policy in trade and sustainable development, The underlying development agendas in global trade law negotiations, Cooperation and potential negotiation on international competition law, Sustainable development aspects of intellectual property rights negotiations, Overlaps between multilateral environmental accords (MEAand¿s) and the WTO, Recent developments in WTO dispute settlement procedures and proceedings, Human rights and environmental opportunities from trade liberalisation and increased market acces, Human rights and environment impact assessment techniques used to analyse trade agreements, Recent developments in bi-lateral and regional trade agreements. Trade, investment, and competition law practitioners and negotiators in developed and developing countries will find this book of great value, as will development and environment law professionals with responsibility for trade and WTO law related matters. With rich contributions from leading trade law practitioners, academics, and WTO panel and appellate body roster members, Sustainable Developments in World Trade Law offers a constructive, timely and accessible expert analysis of recent discussions and advances in the field, providing an integrated and essential guide to some of the most important issues in international economic law today.

Book Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Crafting Trade and Investment Accords for Sustainable Development written by Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International economic law guides and shapes globalization and the future of the world economy, our human societies, and the Earth. The rules which facilitate trade and investment could defend the interests of Hermes, Greek god of commerce and thieves, or learn to draw inspiration from Athena, goddess of justice, wisdom, and crafts. This volume explores how trade and investment agreements could promote more sustainable development, rather than increasing the negative social and environmental impacts of economic growth. States and other actors are attempting to integrate social and environmental considerations into trade and investment policies, towards more sustainable development. Analysing their efforts, this volume offers insights into the ways that commitments to sustainability are being operationalized in the texts of economic treaties themselves. Written by a renowned expert jurist and professor of law, this book examines the measures being debated in the WTO and adopted by States in a selection of innovative and flexible regional and bilateral trade and investment accords. With legal examples spanning decades of experimentation and experience, the book illuminates how States and stakeholders are seeking innovative ways to integrate environmental and social considerations into trade and investment agreements. Introducing a ground-breaking systematic approach, the volume considers how, through this integration, international trade and investment law can contribute to the achievement of the world's Sustainable Development Goals.