If you have a relevant resource (books, papers, bulletins, etc.) you would like to see announced in this section, please forward a copy for review by the BRIDGES staff to hbaumuller@ictsd.ch. Submissions of publications to ICTSD’s documentation centre would also be welcome (contact mgalvin@ictsd.ch).
HARD FACTS, HIDDEN PROBLEMS: A REVIEW OF CURRENT DATA ON FISHING SUBSIDIES. Published by WWF, October 2001. The report concludes that fishing industry subsidies worldwide amount to US$15 billion per year, as opposed to the US$13 billion reported by governments, with Japan having the highest fishing subsidy levels, followed by the EU, the US, and China. Available online at http://www.panda.org/endangeredseas/publications/hardfacts_oct26.pdf.
TRADING AWAY THE LAST ANCIENT FORESTS: THE IMPACTS ON FORESTS OF TRADE LIBERALISATION MEASURES BY THE WTO. By R.G. Tarasofsky and S. Pfahl, Ecologic - Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, on behalf of Greenpeace International, November 2001. Available at http://www.greenpeace.org/politics/wto/Doha/reports/wto.pdf.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN BIODIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURE. Edited by Peter Drahos and Michael Blakeney. Published by Sweet and Maxwell, November 2001. The essays in this volume draw attention to a broad set of global biodiversity-related regulatory agendas with which intellectual property rights are now irrevocably linked, and address aspects of the failure to address the difficult relationship between intellectual property and the regulation of food, agriculture, the environment, and health. Further information is available online at: http:// http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/products/cat/mydetails.cfm?title=107625&detail=126830.
"The economic consequences of alien plant invasions: examples of impacts and approaches to sustainable management in South Africa," by B.W. van Wilgen et al, in ENVIRONMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY, 3 (2), 2001: 145-168. The paper reviews what is known of the economic consequences of alien plant invsions in South Africa. These economic arguments have been used to successfully launch the largest environmental management programme in Africa.
"Ecologically unsustainable trade," by J. O. Andersson and M. Lindroth in ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, 37 (1, 2001): 113-122. In this article, the ecological footprint concept is used to distinguish different types of ecologically unsustainable trade, but the issue of the possible effects of trade on the ecological footprints is also raised. The authors argue that since international trade can be a subtle mechanism by which ecological sustainability is preserved locally by means of importing biomass and sink-capacity from other countries, it can also blur the view of responsibility for the ecological effects of production and consumption. At the end of this article, some ethical and political dilemmas related to these issues are raised.
FOOD FOR ALL: CAN HUNGER BE HALVED? By the Panos Institute, 2001. The report, inter alia, looks at the question whether trade liberalisation should be seen as part of the solution to world hunger, or part of the problem. Available online at http://www.panos.org.uk/food_for_all.htm.
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