Research handbook on environment, health and the WTO / edited by Geert Van Calster, KU Leuven, Belgium, and Denise Prévost, Maastricht University, The Netherlands - xx, 857 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Research handbooks on the WTO . - Research handbooks on the WTO. .

Book.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The precautionary principle in conflicts law perspectives / Regulatory purpose in GATT Article III, TBT Article 2.1, the Subsidies Agreement, and elsewhere: Hic et ubique / Equivalence and risk regulation under the World Trade Organization's SPS Agreement / On the efficiency of health measures and the appropriate level of protection / The International Organization for Standardization: private voluntary standards as swords and shields / Law and economics of the SPS Agreement: a critical perspective / Trade, environment and animal welfare: conditioning trade in goods and services on conduct in another country? / TRIPs and access to essential medicines / Public perception of food safety risks under WTO law: a normative perspective / Pre-market approval systems and the SPS Agreement / Scope of application of the SPS Agreement: a post-Biotech analysis / GATS and public health care: reflecting on an uneasy relationship / WTO law and risk factors for noncommunicable diseases: a complex relationship / International trade and climate change / Carbon leakage measures and border tax adjustments under WTO law / Challenges for technology transfer in the climate change arena: what interactions with the TRIPS Agreement? / Subsidies for emissions mitigation under WTO law / Emission trading schemes and WTO law: a typology of interactions / Trade in environmental goods, with focus on climate-friendly goods and technologies / Emerging technologies and the WTO: comparing biotechnology and nanotechnology regulations in the EU and the US / Standard of review of health and environmental regulations by WTO panels / The impact of sanitary and phytosanitary measures on India's exports and the challenges/opportunities of the SPS Agreement / Alexia Herwig and Christian Joerges -- Donald H. Regan -- Marsha A. Echols -- Jeffery Atik -- David A. Wirth -- Alessandra Arcuri -- Peter Morrison and Laura Nielsen -- Bryan Mercurio -- Alberto Alemanno -- Tracey Epps -- Jacqueline Peel -- Panagiotis Delimatsis -- Tania Voon -- Thomas Cottier and Nashina Shariff -- Joost Pauwelyn -- Dalindyebo Shabalala -- Luca Rubini -- Javier de Cendra de Larragan -- ZhongXiang Zhang -- Heike Baumuller -- Lukasz Gruszczynski -- Kasturi Das

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World Trade Organization.


International trade--Environmental aspects.
International trade--Health aspects
Foreign trade regulation--Environmental aspects
Foreign trade regulation--Health aspects

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