REFLECTIONS ON THE DEBATE BETWEEN TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT
A Study Guide For Law Students, Researchers,and Academics
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We must do more to harmonise our goal of increasing trade with our goal of improving the environment and working conditions.1 This book analyses the trade and environmental debate generally but links the debate to trade in toxic waste where appropriate. This is done by juxtaposing these two spheres. Speaking generally, Gaines points out that the two spheres of trade and the environment starkly contradict each other. He explains the trade-environment relationship as a complicated interdisciplinary policy issue that poses man with two fundamental choices, namely: a. o rganizing the world in economic, political, and social terms b. preventing ourselves, to the best extent possible, from doing irreparable damage to the earth’s ecosystems.2
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REFLECTIONS ON THE DEBATE BETWEEN TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT A STUDY GUIDE FOR LAW STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS AND ACADEMICS This book is intended to provide information for students, researchers, and academics in the field of international environmental law and the law of international trade. It could serve as a simple guide in this regard. It discusses the trade and environment debate with relevant case studies and legislation from WTO and EU jurisprudential perspectives. The book also pays attention to the relevance of this debate regarding African countries in their implementation of trade and environmental policies within the context of a green economy and how these relate to pertinent environmental issues, such as climate change, pollution, and waste trade.
About the Author
Dr Yvonne Nana Afua Idun is a senior lecturer in law and chairperson of Public Law at the Kenyatta University School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya. Her previous experiences include being a programme officer at the UN University-International Leadership Institute in Jordan and an environmental policy analyst at the UN University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, based in Ghana. She has also lectured and conducted research at the Africa Institute of South Africa, the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Yale Law School in the USA. She has undertaken consultancy assignments with the UN Women in the Dominican Republic; the UNDP offices in USA, Benin, and Liberia; the UNIDO and IUCN offices in Ghana; as well as the UNECA in Ethiopia. As part of these professional experiences, she has translated policy briefs, reports, and legal documents from French into English. Dr Idun holds a BA in law and French from the University of Ghana, a certificate in French language proficiency and civilization from the Institut Supérieur Privé in France, an LLM in the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in international environmental law and the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town. Her current activities include being a founding member of the Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development, an NGO in Senegal. She is also an editorial advisor of the board of advisors of the African Journal of Clinical Legal Education and Access to Justice and a member of the Réseau de Femmes Africaines et Espagnoles pour un Monde Meilleur in the Canary Islands, the Mother’s Mercy Home orphanage project in Limuru, Kenya, and the Population Environment Research Network at CIESIN Columbia University in the USA. Dr Idun has authored books and articles within the field of gender, trade, and environment. She has a keen interest in rural development, refugee protection, and poverty alleviation.