Free trade free logging
Subtitle: how the World Trade Organization undermines global forest conservation : a special report by the International Forum on Globalization
By: Victor Menotti
Publisher: International Forum on Globalization
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: World Trade Organization; Logging; Trade regulation; Forests and forestry; Environmental aspects; Law and legislation; Free trade; International trade; Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why forests matter; title: The nature of corporate forestry; title: Explosive growth; title: Global logging corporations; title: WTO trade rules shift power from local to global institutions; title: WTO proposed investment rules would shift power from local to global institutions; title: WTO increases wasteful consumption; title: WTO opens the door to invasive species and genetically modified organisms; title: WTO helps monopolize control of genetic resources; title: WTO intensifies conversion of forests to agriculture; title: WTO weakens existing environmental protections; title: WTO prevents new environmental protection; title: WTO threatens ecolabels; title: WTO restrains government expenditures for forest conservations; title: How countries are conforming.