By André Dua and Daniel C. Esty, The Institute for International Economics, October 1997

Asia Pacific countries have experienced extraordinary economic growth in recent years. But the region also suffers from choking air pollution, fouled water, ravaged forests, depleted fisheries, and other environmental problems.Eager to promote further growth, governments in the region have embarked on an ambitious program of economic integration through the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.

In this volume, Dua and Esty argue that APEC’s trade and investment liberalization can be compatible with environmental protection. They stress, moreover, that true prosperity and the APEC vision of a "community of Asia Pacific economies" cannot be achieved without attention to public health and ecological threats, resource management issues, and tensions at the economy-environment interface. The authors identify the issues that must be dealt with internationally and propose an ambitious environmental action agenda for APEC that would play an important role in that strategy.

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Book Contents (PDFs):

Preface 

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction 199.8KB

2. APEC's Economic Performance 270.1KB

3. Environmental Problems Confronting APEC's Members 371.0KB

4. Underlying Causes of Environmental Harms Facing APEC 283.2KB

5. Tension at the Economy-Environment Interface 204.2KB

6. Why APEC Must Act 267.6KB

7. Toward Optimal Environmental Governance 237.3KB

8. APEC's Existing Environmental Efforts 198.3KB

9. An APEC Environmental Agenda 272.2KB

Appendix 126.9KB

References

Index

About the Authors:

André Dua: Director of the Asia Pacific Trade and Environmental Project, Yale University, and Research Scholar, Yale Law School. He is author or coauthor of a number of articles and studies on economic development and trade.

Daniel C. Esty: Senior Fellow in 1994, is Director of the Center for Environmental Law and Policy and Associate Professor in the Schools of Law and Forestry at Yale University. He served as the US Environmental Protection Agency's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, as EPA's Deputy Chief of Staff, and as Special Assistant to EPA Adminstrator William Reilly. He was EPA's chief NAFTA negotiator. He is the author of a number of articles and studies on trade, competitiveness, environment, and development, including Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection and Economic Integration (1997) with André Dua, and Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future (1994).

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