The trade^environment linkage is certainly one of the thorniest issues in international economic policy. Neumayer's Greening Trade and Investment is a creative engagement of this subject. The book sets itself quite a challenging task: to persuade readers that multilateral investment and trade regimes can be made more environmentally friendly without opening the floodgates for potential protectionist abuse by the developed world (page 20). This principal objective is guided by three key questions: first,``What are the issue areas, where significant environmental problems caused by foreign investment or trade allegedly exist?''; second,``What is the evidence with respect to these allegations?''; third,``What policies can be recommended to solve these problems?'' The format of the book is simple and in three sections. The introductory section,`T he foundations'', with two chapters, provides an overview of the historical perspectives of international trade and investment, multilateral investment, trade regimes, and institutions. The second section has four chapters which focus on investment and environment, and address the issues of pollution havens in developing countries, regulatory chill in developed countries, and investor-to-state dispute settlements. Section 3 is further split into three chapters and deals with the environmental consequences of trade liberalization, GATT/WTO dispute settlement and its implications for the environment, as well as the potential conflicts between multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) and WTO rules. Each chapter in sections 2 and 3 has its own policy recommendations, which are systematically collated in a final tenth chapter,``Conclusion and summary of policy recommendations''. Among the book's numerous assets is its proactive step towards, not only identifying potential conflicts between MEAs and WTO rules, but also proposing ready policy options for countering such conflicts if they ever arise. The simultaneous analysis of trade and investment, and their interlinkages with the environment paints a holistic picture of the issues at stake and represents an important departure from conventional analysis of economy^environment linkages, as most authors tend to concentrate on trade to the exclusion of investment. The document also contains abundant references allowing the reader to pursue greater detail on specific subjects. If one is to be critical of this book, it would be for its exclusive focus on global environmental pollution, and peripheral treatment of the tendency of developing countries to depend heavily on primary commodities as well as the role played by the international economic mechanisms and tariff structure in, not only breeding and sustaining this tendency, but preventing commodity-exporting countries from making the resultant environmental costs a recurrent element in pricing for a review (see Cheru, 1992; Kox, 1991). Low primary commodity prices and drive for foreign exchange compel commodity producers to cut timber faster than the forest's regeneration capa...