ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION The continuing debate between environmentalists and advocates of free trade intensified in recent battles over the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Also, the conclusion of the Uruguay Round of multilateral negotiations has been as fractious and emotional as any public policy debate

in recent memory. Battle lines, drawn like a patchwork, separated not only developed and developing nations, ‘greens’ and free-traders, but also ran within the communities, as with the North American environmental movement which was painfully divided over the passage of the NAFTA.