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Arden-Clarke, Charles South-North Terms of Trade, Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development. WWF Discussion Paper. Gland, CH: World Wide Fund for Nature, 1992. 12 p.
Explores how various trade measures might be used to alleviate the environmental impacts stemming from current South-North trade.

Cameron, James, Paul Demaret and Damien Geradin (eds) Trade and the Environment: The Search for Balance. London: Cameron May, 1994.
Collection of essays and companion documents from the research and advisory work of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development and the Institut D'Études Juridiques Européenes which seeks to inform decision-making in the area of trade and environment.

Environment & Development Resource Centre Striking a Green Deal: a Comprehensive International Conference on "Europe's Role in Environment and South-North Trade Relations". Brussels: EDRC, 1993. various p.
Conference papers and recommendations of several of the working groups to the European Parliament with a focus on such topics as: Green Protectionism, Equitable Commodity Trade, Trade and Technology, Guiding Principles for Sustainable Development in both the South and North, Regional Integration, Legal and Institutional Implications, Role of Major Target Groups.

Esty, Daniel C. Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment and the Future.Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1994. 319 p.
Seeks to clarify the many concerns surrounding trade liberalization and environmental responsibility, lays out a strategy for 'greening the GATT' and calls for the creation of a Global Environmental Organization to provide a comprehensive international environmental management structure.

International Institute for Sustainable Development Trade and Sustainable Development Principles. Winnipeg: IISD, 1994. 31p.
An innovative and practical guiding framework for policy-makers and those who shape policy in a wider sense, to help achieve sustainable development where trade, environment and development intersect.

Johnson, Pierre Marc and André Beaulieu The Environment and NAFTA: Understanding and Implementing the New Continental Law. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1996. 412 p.
Examines NAFTA's environmental implications, the context in which they were brought to the table and the legal mechanisms put in place to address them.

LaQuesne, Caroline Reforming World Trade: The Social and Environmental Priorities. Oxford, UK: Oxfam, 1996. 114p.
Focuses on the WTO and makes the case that it has so far failed to create a viable framework for the social and environmental regulation of international trade.

OECD Trade and Environment: Process and Production Methods. Paris: OECD, 1994.
Reports prepared for a workshop sponsored by the OECD on Trade and Environment: Issues Pertaining to Process and Production Methods (PPMs) held in Helsinki, Finland on 6-7 April 1994.

OECD The Environmental Effects of Trade. Paris: OECD, 1994. 206 p.
Represents a first attempt to further understanding of the effects of trade on the environment. It is based on sector studies of trade/environment linkages regarding agriculture, forestry, fisheries, transport and endangered species.

Repetto, Robert Trade and Sustainable Development. Environment and Trade No.1. Geneva: United Nations Environment Programme, 1994. 45 p.
Examines whether trade liberalization supports the goal of environmentally sound and sustainable economic development.

Schrecker, Ted & Jean Dalgleish (eds) Growth, Trade and Environmental Values.London, ON: Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values, 1994. 227 p.
Papers presented at a two-day symposium which examined the connections between trade policy, environmental policy and economic distribution.

United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD) [Trade & Environment Country Case Studies.]Geneva: UNCTAD.
A series of sixteen country studies being carried out in developing countries and transition economies by local institutes that seek to build a better understanding of the linkages between trade and environment.