Fading Green? Environmental Politics in the Mercosur Free Trade Agreement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2994714
AutoresKathryn Hochstetler (0000-0003-2960-058X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas1-32
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLatin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-2456.2003.tb00256.x
OpenAlexW2014038843
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas20

This article explores the role of environmental concerns in free trade areas made up entirely of developing countries. It surveys the environmental institutions of Mercosur, the Common Market of South America, and its member states. It also presents a case study of the recently terminated negotiations over a regional environmental legal instrument as an example of collective environmental decisionmaking. The article concludes that all the environmental components of the agreement are weak, and have even been downgraded in recent years. Even so, national environmental protections have increased during the years of the Mercosur agreement, and some regional actors are poised to join their northern counterparts in opposition to any potential free trade area of the Americas that does not include environmental provisions

Business · Economics · Environmental law · Environmental policy · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Free trade · Free trade agreement · Geography · International trade · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · International Development and Aid · Law · World Trade Organization Law