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Abstracts Abstracts Abstracts Constructing Environmental Conºicts from Resource Scarcity By Peter M. Haas This essay reviews Malthusian themes in current discourses about resource scarcity and environmental security. It argues that these themes are unjustiªably dominant in current discussions, and suggests that increased attention should be to paid to discourses revolving around Sustainable Development, as well as on institutional designs that can inºuence patterns of resource consumption and collective responses to perceptions of resource scarcity Turtles and Trade: The WTOâs Acceptance of Environmental Trade Restrictions By Elizabeth R. DeSombre and J. Samuel Barkin The sea turtle has become an icon of environmentalist opposition to the World Trade Organization. Two decisions by the WTO in 1998 against a United States law intended to force other countries to adopt more turtle-friendly rules attracted widespread attention. A third decision in 2001 which supported the US law, however, went almost entirely unnoticed. A closer examination of the three decisions suggests that the WTO willingly accepts the idea of environmental restrictions to international trade applied unilaterally by countries. But it requires that the restrictions be fairly applied and nondiscriminatory, show signs of being effective, and be accompanied by efforts to deal with the environmental
Global Environmental Politics – MIT Press
Published: Feb 1, 2002
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