Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment

Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment PDF Author: Paul Ekins
Publisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849773424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Book Description
Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalization and of making those impacts more consistent with sustainable development.