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1. Towards the intermestic politics of trade : institutions, ideas, interests and actors / Oluf Langhelle, Hilmar Rommetvedt and Arild Aurvag Farsund -- 2. The global trade agenda / Oluf Langhelle, Hilmar Rommetvedt and Arild Aurvag Farsund -- 3. Multilevel negotiations in American trade policy : free trade agreements from Bush to Obama / David M. Olson -- 4. The European Union : balancing trade liberalization and protectionism / Carsten Daugbjerg -- 5. India's trade politics : continuity and change / Amrita Narlikar -- 6. China : an open, confident and booming trading nation / Ning Jun, Yao Lei and Wang Gefei -- 7. Norway : agricultural exceptionalism and the quest for free trade / Arild Aurvag Farsund -- 8. The intermestic politics of trade / Oluf Langhelle, Arild Aurvag Farsund and Hilmar Rommetvedt.

The concept of sustainable development was placed on the international agenda with the release of the report Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Although considerable attention has since been devoted to the idea of sustainable development itself, the broader conceptual framework of the idea—whereby the Commission tried to integrate environmental policies and development strategies in order to create the foundation for a global partnership—has been neglected in much of the literature. The purpose of the present article is to offer an interpretation of Our Common Future, where the concept of sustainable development is linked to the broader framework of normative preconditions and empirical assumptions. The structure of the argument is to demonstrate that the relationship between sustainable development and economic growth has been over-emphasized, and that other vital aspects of the normative framework have been neglected. Social justice (both within and between generations), humanistic solidarity, a concern for the world's poor, and respect for the ecological limits to global development, constitute other aspects of sustainable development; aspects which are indeed relevant for the growing disparity between North and South.

Over the past, carbon capture and storage (CCS) has come to the fore as a way to manage carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change. This book analyzes the issues decision-makers now confront in encouraging the uptake of the technology, managing uncertainties and regulating attendant risks.

Norway is a petroleum exporting country that, simultaneously, is at the forefront of implementing ambitious climate policy measures. Through a discourse analysis of official documents that address petroleum policy, this article examines how the Norwegian government justifies a place for Norwegian petroleum in a low-carbon future. Our findings show that the frames used to justify continued petroleum production between 2011 and 2018 remains predominantly stable, despite the growing opposition to this official discourse in relation to climate change and the societal dependence on petroleum revenues. This article highlights the tension that Norway, as a petroleum-producing country, face in an increasingly carbon-constrained world, and how this is handled in the official petroleum discourse. It shows how the official discourse portrays continued petroleum production and exploration as both valid and necessary and how this framing is discursively linked to a strong commitment to mitigate climate change. ; publishedVersion

AbstractTheories of Corporate Social Performance (CSP) have been criticized for lacking a clear normative theory of business in society capable of prescribing how management practice can reasonable move from 'what is' to 'what should be'. This paper argues for a pragmatic approach to the role and responsibility of business in society in which the normative deficiencies of CPS theory can be strengthened through democratic iterations over some or the other ethical treatise, and thus come to constitute a justified foundation for companies' efforts in the societal arena. We illustrate our approach to a normative theory of business in society by reinterpreting the principles of corporate social responsibility (CSR) – constituting the normative foundation of CSP theory – from the vantage point of sustainable development. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.