NAFTA and Sustainable Development

This book assesses the current state of environmental protection under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), twenty years after ratification.

Introduction. NAFTA and sustainable development L. Kinvin Wroth and Hoi L. Kong; Part I. Process - NAFTA and NAAEC: 1. Forgotten promises: neglected environmental provisions of the NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation Geoffrey Garver; 2. Should citizens expect procedural justice in nonadversarial processes? Spotlighting the regression of the citizen submission process from NAAEC to CAFTA-DR Giselle Davidian; 3. Choosing the right whistle: the development of the concept of environmental law under the citizen submissions process Paolo Solano; 4. Pending proceedings in the new guidelines for submissions on enforcement matters: an improved regression? Montserrat Rovalo; 5. Form over substance: procedural hurdles to the NAAEC citizen submission process Leslie Welts; Part II. Specific Environmental Issues under NAFTA and NAAEC: 6. Downward harmonization: Mexico's industrial livestock revolution Pamela Vesilind; 7. Agricultural biotechnology and NAFTA: analyzing the impacts of US and Canadian policies on Mexico's environment and agriculture Laurie Beyranevand; 8. Assessing assessments of NAFTA's marine environment: the commission for environmental cooperation meets the World Ocean Assessment Betsy Baker; 9. Sustainable development, NAFTA, and water Katia Opalka; 10. Indigenous peoples in North America: bridging the trade and environment gap to ensure sustainability under NAFTA and NAAEC Nicole Schabus; 11. Climate change, sustainable development, and NAFTA: regional policy harmonization as a basis for sustainable development Freedom-Kai Phillips; 12. The principle of public participation in NAFTA chapter 11 disputes Avidan Kent; 13. Preventing environmental deterioration from international trade and investment: how China can learn from NAFTA's experience to strengthen domestic environmental governance and ensure sustainable development Danni Liang and Jingjing Liu; Part III. Proposals for Reform and Lessons Going Forward: 14. Pathways of influence in the NAFTA regime and their implications for domestic environmental policy-making in North America Sébastien Jodoin; 15. The citizen submissions process in the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation: theory and practice in deliberative democratic institutional design for transnational institutions Hoi L. Kong; 16. Assessing ENGO influence in North American environmental politics: the double grid framework Raul Pacheco-Vega.