The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of India. Combining authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse perspectives, they discuss subjects which are topical yet enduring, as also emerging areas of study and debate. The steady decline of trade barriers accompanying the wave of globalization over the last two decades has boosted production as well as income generation. This spiralling growth-production-trade relationship is continuously putting pressure on environmental resources, making pollution abatement a bone of contention amongst the developed and the developing nations. This short introduction initiates readers to the highly contentious relationship between trade and environment. Using specific case studies, especially the Indian experience, it examines the impact of trade liberalization on the level of pollution, on the one hand, and the impact of environmental regulations on the pattern of trade and foreign investment, on the other. This short introduction has woven a comprehensive canvas to locate different strands of the debate on trade and environment...Genesis of the problem along with empirical facts have been neatly arranged around the relevant theoretical structures. --Sarmila Banerjee, Rajiv Gandhi Chair Professor of Ecosystems and Sustainable Development, University of Calcutta Issues addressed in the volume are of great relevance. An excellent contribution, which will be useful for researchers, policymakers and students. --Arup Mitra, Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi Issues addressed in the volume are of great relevance. An excellent contribution, which will be useful for researchers, policymakers and students. --Arup Mitra, Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi This short introduction studies the spiralling growth-production-trade relationship which is continuously putting pressure on environmental resources, making pollution abatement a bone of contention amongst the developed and the developing nations. Rajat Acharyya is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.