Environmental Assessment and the Greening of NAFTA vorgelegt von Diplom-Ingenieurin der Landschaftsplanung Aranka Podhora aus Berlin Von der Fakultät VI – Planen Bauen Umwelt der Technischen Universität Berlin zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktorin der Ingenieurwissenschaften Landschaftsplanung – Dr.-Ing. – genehmigte Dissertation Vorsitzender: Prof. Dr. Volkmar Hartje Berichter: Prof. Dr. Johann Köppel Berichterin: Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs Tag der wissenschaftlichen Aussprache: 31.03.2010 Berlin 2011 D 83 3 To my parents. 4 5Acknowledgement I would like to thank my supervisors Prof. Dr. Johann Köppel and Prof. Dr. Miranda A. Schreurs for supervising my thesis and for their support and critical comments and questions on the drafts and their support in the research colloquia. Thanks also go to the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and to my peers in the Ph.D. collegium “Ecology and Fairness in the World Trade Regime”, Dr. Reinhild Bode, Dr. Monika Dittrich, Gregor Kaiser, Dr. Lena Partzsch, Dr. Mark Starmans and Dr. Justus von Geibler. I would especially like to thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sachs, the leader of the collegium, Dr. Oscar Reutter, and Tilman Santarius, who accompanied us on our adventures through the different aspects of world trade.