Beyond the Barricades : The Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda Book

	Preface
Pt. I	Introduction	1
	Introduction	3
1	A hemispheric trade and sustainability agenda?	7
Pt. II	Intersecting policy priorities for trade, environment and social law in the Americas	13
2	The biosafety protocol : an opportunity for Americas collaboration	17
3	Biosafety, consumer protection and international trade	25
4	Biodiversity, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights	45
5	Bioprospecting partnership in practice	57
6	Drinking water and sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean : a general assessment	73
7	Sustainable water management in Colombia	77
8	Making water supply available to the excluded	87
9	Mining and stakeholders' involvement : addressing social sustainability challenges	97
10	Mining and stakeholder involvement : rhetoric or reality?	103
11	Global climate change and the Caribbean	111
12	Implementation of the Kyoto Protocol	115
13	Investment cooperation in the Mercosur : towards a regional model	133
14	The FTAA in the graveyard of economic negotiations	141
15	From protest to proposal : options for an Americas investment regime?	145
Pt. III	Implementing procedural priorities for an integrated sustainable development agenda in the Americas	165
16	Strengthening capacity to link environment and health in the context of the FTAA	169
17	Enhancing social and environmental cooperation in the Americas	181
18	Civil society dialogue for international trade negotiations	227
19	Civil society campaign against the imposition of the NAFTA in the Americas	237
20	Openness in Americas trade and environment regimes	243
21	Investing in the environments of the Americas	259
Pt. IV	Conclusions	277
22	Trade and environment : a historic challenge for sustainable development	281
23	A view from Argentina	289
24	A view from the Caribbean	295
25	Lessons learned from the North American experience	299
26	A triple-win strategy for the Americas	307
27	An Americas trade and sustainable development agenda	311