International Management of the Environment

Lombard analyzes the complementary relationship between trade and the environment in the emerging North American environmental management system comprising Canada, the United States, and Mexico. He views the development of closer trade relations among the three NAFTA members as having an overall and long-term beneficial impact on the environment, particularly air quality, in North America.He presents a revised model of environmental policy implementation which stresses further decentralization of environmental protection enforcement, greater reliance on nongovernmental organizations, including businesses, in environmental policy decisionmaking, and the fostering of regional approaches to resolving environmental problems.

"Lombard's book offers a remarkable thorough examination of recent trends in North America within the context of the need for international environment management. He gives special attention to institutional, legal and political developments and their implications, and he asks the right questions. Indeed, his key question about whether trends that favor voluntary controls, greater decentralized, and "managed" public participation produce "better environmental outcomes" cuts to the heart of the matter. It should be asked more frequently than it has been by those who advocate and applaud these shifts in environmental policy."-Michael E. Kraft Chair, Department of Public and Environmental Affairs University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, "The book is a very timely and useful comparative analysis of the NAFTA signatories' regulatory capabilities--one that will probably become a common reference work."-Walter A. Rosenbaum University of Florida, .,."well structured and quite comprehensive....this book makes a very important contribution. It provides one of the closest comparative examinations of environmental protection in all three nations, and through that window can be seen many of the issues that the world will face as economic integration and trade regimes advance....Overall, this book provides us with a better sense of what works and what does not in terms of offsetting some of the possible negative environmental pressures inherent in global and regional economic integration."-American Political Science Review, ?...well structured and quite comprehensive....this book makes a very important contribution. It provides one of the closest comparative examinations of environmental protection in all three nations, and through that window can be seen many of the issues that the world will face as economic integration and trade regimes advance....Overall, this book provides us with a better sense of what works and what does not in terms of offsetting some of the possible negative environmental pressures inherent in global and regional economic integration.?-American Political Science Review, ..."well structured and quite comprehensive....this book makes a very important contribution. It provides one of the closest comparative examinations of environmental protection in all three nations, and through that window can be seen many of the issues that the world will face as economic integration and trade regimes advance....Overall, this book provides us with a better sense of what works and what does not in terms of offsetting some of the possible negative environmental pressures inherent in global and regional economic integration."-American Political Science Review

EMMETT N. LOMBARD is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oakland University. His earlier work has appeared in various academic and professional journals, including American Review of Public Administration and Natural Resources Journal.