北美自由贸易与北美环境

北美自由贸易区协调自由贸易与环境保护的工作是开创性的,文章根据"压力状态反应框架",从企业、基础设施、NAFTA机构以及政府政策四个方面,分析北美自由贸易区贸易自由化进程中的环境效应,得出的结论是:北美自由贸易促进北美环境水平的提高。 

Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalization in the North America

NAFTA is the first trade agreement to reconcile trade and environmental interests between developed and developing countries. This article adopts a “pressure-status-response” framework to analyze the environment effects of NAFTA from the following four aspects, including enterprises, production technology, infrastructure, social organization and government policy. The conclusion is that environment effects of NAFTA depend upon the response of social organization, the implementation of government policy, enterprise's operation and related infrastructure. Positive environment effects have been observed in above three aspects, except that in infrastructure. And only if social organization and government policy operate normally, NAFTA will finally produce positive environment effects.