John J Kirton - Linking Trade, Environment, and Social Cohesion: NAFTA Experiences, Global Challenges

Series Editors: Konrad von Moltke and John J. Kirton

Global Environmental Governance addresses the new generation of twenty-first century environmental problems and the challenges they pose for management and governance at the local, national, and global levels. Centred on the relationships among environmental change, economic forces, and political governance, the series explores the role of international institutions and instruments, national and sub-federal governments, private sector firms, scientists, and civil society, and provides a comprehensive body of progressive analyses on one of the worlds most contentious international issues.

International Equity and Global Environmental Politics:
Power and Principles in U.S. Foreign Policy
Paul G. Harris
ISBN 0 7546 1735 1

Governing Global Biodiversity:
The Evolution and Implementation
of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Edited by Philippe G. Le Prestre
ISBN 0 7546 1744 0

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Gustavo Alanis Ortega is a professor of Environmental Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and has been the president of the Mexican Environmental Law Center for the past eleven years. In addition, he is Academic Co-ordinator of the Diploma on Environmental Law and Policy at the Universidad Iberoamericana, President of the InterAmerican Association for the Protection of the Environment (AIDA), and a Fellow of Leadership on Environment and Development (LEAD), Cohort 7. He is also a columnist for the Reforma newspaper in Mexico City, where he writes about environmental law and environmental education. Professor Alanis received his LL.B. from the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City and holds an LL.M. in International Law from the American University, Washington College of Law, in Washington DC. LEAD is a partner institution of Strengthening Canadas Environmental Community through International Regime Reform (the EnviReform project) at the University of Toronto.

Carl G. Amrhein has been dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto since November 1997. He was previously chair of the universitys Department of Geography and the graduate program in planning, a position he held since 1993. He was admitted as a full member to the Canadian Institute of Planning and the Ontario Professional Planning Institute in 1997. Dean Amrheins research concentrates on urban environmental health and spatial statistics, with a predominant focus on the quality of data. A prolific author and well-respected scholar, he has completed two terms as chair of the board of directors of the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement and was one of the leaders of the centres Metropolis Project, which is examining issues of immigration and settlement in urban areas. Dean Amrhein was a principal investigator on a recently completed two-year National Health Research and Development programme grant to examine issues related to urban environmental health. Most recently, he and a colleague are working jointly with the Universit Laval to support the work of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation on geographic information systems. Dean Amrhein received his B.Sc. from Pennsylvania State University in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1984.

Kevin Banks is Senior Labour Law Advisor at the Secretariat of the North American Commission for Labor Cooperation (CLC). He works on the Secretariats research team on various projects, including comparative analyses of the labour laws of the three member states. Before joining the Secretariat staff, Mr. Banks practised labour, employment, human rights, and administrative law in Toronto and Ottawa as a litigator, advisor, and negotiator on behalf of various trade union and individual clients. In 1993, he served as consultant to the United States Presidents Commission on Labor Law Reform (the Dunlop Commission). Mr. Banks holds a B.A. in economics and an LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he is a candidate for a doctorate in law.

David L. Buckeridge, FRCP(C), is a member of the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has been Research Associate with HEALNet (Health Evidence Application and Linkage Network) and a member of the Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence. His research focusses on public health informatics, that is, the collection, storage, retrieval, analysis, and dissemination of data and information relevant to the health of communities. He has a particular interest in health surveillance systems, geographical and environmental epidemiology, and human and organisational factors related to community health systems. He received his B.Sc. and M.D. from Queens University and his M.Sc. in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. In January 2001, Dr. Buckeridge entered the Ph.D. program in medical informatics at Stanford University.

William A. Dymond is Executive Director of the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has extensive experience in trade negotiation and policy. Formerly the Director-General of the Policy Planning Secretariat of Canadas Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, he has also served as Senior Advisor to the Trade Negotiations Office for the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, Chief Negotiator for Canada for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Developments Multilateral Agreement on Investment, and Chief Air Negotiator for Canada. His overseas assignments include Ambassador of Canada to Brazil, Deputy Head and Minister Counsellor for the Permanent Mission of Canada to the European Communities in Brussels, and Minister Counsellor (Commercial) at the Embassy of Canada to the United States in Washington DC. Mr. Dymonds publications include The MAI: A Sad and Melancholy Tale, in A Big League Player? Canada Among Nations