Globalisation, trade and the environmentthe trade and environment relationship, and Eckersley (2004b)and Young
(2005)examinetheWTO.DeereandEsty( 2002 )present a range of readings
on NAFTA. For EU environmental policy, see Lenschow ( 2005 )for a short
introduction, and Weale et al. ( 2000 ), McCormick ( 2001 ), Jordan and Lief-
ferink (2004b)andJordan ( 2005 )for fuller accounts. Vig and Faure ( 2004 )
examine USA–EU links.
See the journals Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Politics,
Global Environmental Change and International Affairs fordevelopments
in international environmental politics. The key institutional websites
are: http://www.wto.org/ (WTO); http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/
indexe.aspx?ArticleID=1(NAFTA); http://www.europa.eu.int/pol/env/index
en.htm (EU Directorate-General for Environment); http://www.eea.eu.int/
(European Environmental Agency).
NOTES
1 Good places to start on the massive globalisation debate are Held et al. ( 2005 )and
Scholte ( 2005 ). See Mol ( 2003 )specifically on globalisation and the environment.
2 Broader definitions of globalisation, which are particularly common in sociology,
distinguish between economic, political and cultural forms.
3 For afuller discussion of the trade and environment relationship, see Esty ( 1994 ),
Neumayer ( 2001 )and Clapp and Dauvergne ( 2005 :ch.5)
4 Moreover, when the three ‘green’ states – Austria, Finland and Sweden – joined
theEUin1995 they negotiated a special right to maintain their existing higher
environmental standards.