Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia
In recent years, the East and South East Asian region has witnessed a rapid expansion of regional economic cooperation through bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements. The current book attempts to comprehensively analyze the economic and environm
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Kakali Mukhopadhyay · Paul J. Thomassin
Economic and Environmental Impact of Free Trade in East and South East Asia
Foreword by Hideyuki Mori and Mark Elder
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Kakali Mukhopadhyay Department of Agricultural Economics McGill University, Macdonald Campus 21, 111 Lakeshore Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Montreal, Quebec Canada H9X 3V9 [email protected]
Paul J. Thomassin Department of Agricultural Economics McGill University, Macdonald Campus 21, 111 Lakeshore Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Montreal, Quebec Canada H9X 3V9 [email protected]
ISBN 978-90-481-3506-6 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3507-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3507-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942093 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
During the last two decades Asian countries have recognized the potential of regional economic integration. There are now a number of free trade agreements (FTAs) and economic partnership agreements (EPAs) between various countries in the region, and efforts are continuing to further expand the scope of economic integration. Some believe that an East and South East Asian multi-lateral regional trading community could be established by 2020. To assess the economic and environmental implications of this integration, a project entitled “Promotion of Sustainable Development in the Context of Regional Economic Integration—Strategies for Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Reduction” was initiated by the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan, together with the United Nations Environment Programme— Economics and Trade Branch (UNEP-ETB), McGill University in Canada, the Korea Environment Institute (KEI) in the Republic of Korea, and the National Institute for Environmental Strategies (NIES) in Japan in October 2005. This three year project was funded by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan as one of three sub projects of a larger project called APEIS (Asia Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy Project). Also, this study was developed as the first project of the United Nations Environment Programme—Network of Institutes for Sustainable Development (UNEP-NISD). IGES was the lead institute coordinating the project. Other institutions from the region provided input into the project and supported the research with both data and policy information. These institutions included: the Policy Research Centre for Environment and Economy (PRCEE) of the State Environment Protection Administration of China (SEPA) (now the Ministry of Environm
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