Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes

Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalisation, and of making those impacts more consistent with sustainable development.

This book takes a hard look at the experience of Trade SIAs to date, and th...