Product Description: Civil society activism around issues of global justice has proliferated in Europe during the past two decades. Has such contestation and advocacy made a difference? This book examines whether and how the organizations, networks and campaigns involved have attained their policy objectives in the areas of debt relief, international trade, international taxation and corporate accountability...read more

Product Description: Throughout the 1980s major changes in development policy took place in several Third World socialist countries. This book examines why this shift from 'orthodoxy' to 'reform' occurred in Mozambique, Vietnam and Nicaragua, as well as in Cuba during the early 1980s...read more

Product Description: Behind the headlines about the loss of tropical forests in Latin America lies a complex and fascinating story of the social pressures which cause it. Trees, People and Power looks at the various groups, interests and conflicts involved, and explores the repercussions for forestry, the environment and the livelihoods of the rural and urban poor...read more

Product Description: The rhetoric of corporate environmental responsibility has been quite positive in industrialized countries, and has even extended to developing countries, but very little is known about the extent of concrete changes in the environmental performance of big business...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This title seeks to assess how effective the environmental movement in the Philippines has been at reversing decades of plunder of the country's forest resources. It looks at attempts to promote forest protection and people's participation in natural resource management. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an examination of the social and political processes which have caused the tropical deforestation of Central America. The author analyzes forest use and abuse, showing how the interests of different groups collide and describing how local initiatives can conserve and restore the forests...read more