The organizations of global negotiantons

constructing the climate change regime

The global negotiations over climate change involved over 180 countries and innumerable observers and other participants, addressing enormously complex and economically vital issues with conflicting agendas. For the UN to create an effective and well-supported international regime required enormous and very skilful organization. Using the ...

Sustainability and health

supporting global ecological integrity in public health

The zone of interaction between the social and the natural environment is the most important emerging area in public health. Radical changes in the biosphere and human interaction with the environment are increasingly impacting the health of populations across the world. Whether the risk is ...

Limits to privatization

how to avoid too much of a good thing: a report to the Club of Rome

The social contours of risk

.Vol.I: publics, risk cominication and the social amplification of risk

We live in a #risk society# where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world#s leading and most influential analysts ...

The social countors of risk

.Vol.II: Risk analysis, corporations and the globalization of risk

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. Jeanne and Roger Kasperson are two of the world's leading and most influential analysts ...

Blue revolution

integrated land and water resource management

This update to Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resources management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water: for food and ...

Capitalism as if the world matters

As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is beginning to question the very structure of the economy that has provided so much wealth, and inequity, across the world ...

Cities transformed

demographic change and its implications in the developing world

The triple bottom line

does it all add up?: assessing the sustainability of business and CSR

In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the "triple bottom line" - the business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appreciate the importance and benefits ...

World in transition:towards sustainable energy systems

"The publication of 'World in Transition: Towards Sustainable Energy Systems' is timely indeed. The World Summit on Sustainable Development gave great attention to this challenge, but failed to agree on a quantitative, time-bound target for the introduction of renewable energy sources. The German Advisory Council ...

The atlas of water

mapping the world's most critical resource

Today more than a billion people are without safe drinking water. By 2050, almost half the world's population will face severe water shortages. The planet is running out of fresh water at such a rate that soon it will be the most valuable commodity ...

Strategic environmental assessment in action

This practical guide on how to carry out strategic environmental assessment (SEA) presents a coherent #how to do it# approach for the practitioner. It is the first publication to take account of the requirements of the European Union Directive 2001/42/EC # known as the ...

The solar economy

Policy that works for forest and people

real prospects for governance and livelihoods

Balancing water for humans and nature

the new approach in ecohydrology

Measuring your company's environmental impact

templates and tools for a complete ISO 14001 initial review

Exploring sustainable development

geographical perspectives

Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital ...

Intellectual property,biogenetic resources and traditional knowledge

Biogenetic resources # the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields # are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of ethics ...

Domestic wastewater treatment in developing countries

Affordable and effective domestic wastewater treatment is a critical issue in public health and disease prevention around the world, but particularly so in developing countries, which often lack the financial and technical resources necessary for proper treatment facilities. This practical guide provides state-of-the-art coverage of ...

Small change

about the art of practice and the limits of planning in cities

Urban governance voice and poverty in the developing world

Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world#s poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied ...

Market economy and urban change

impacts in the developing world

Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of #market enablement# and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development ...