Product Description: International organizations do not always live up to the expectations and mandates of their member countries. One of the best examples of this gap is the environmental performance of multilateral development banks, which are tasked with allocating and managing approximately half of all development assistance worldwide...read more

Product Description: Perhaps the most defining characteristic of the global economy today is the rise of emerging market economies (EMEs). Many states have experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades that has led to an increasing share of global wealth...read more

Product Description: The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes...read more

Product Description: Ensuring that sufficient resources will be available to finance the internationally agreed upon development goals was at the heart of the discussions at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in 2002 in Johannesburg. In order to make financing mechanisms more effective, resources will have to come from both the public and private sectors, and innovative approaches will have to be designed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The twelve chapters in this work--written by political scientists, economists, and environmental experts--deal with environmental policy in the developing nations of Africa, Asia, East Europe and Latin America, as well as the worldwide environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Developing countries realize increasingly that the environment must become an integral part of their trade and development strategies. At the same time, they are faced with a number of constraints. In particular, developing countries have to cope with ever more complex environmental requirements and policies in OECD markets which impose serious compliance problems on their producers and exporters...read more

Product Description: A market-based approach to environmental management relies on the creation of incentives to producers and consumers to make better use of resources. Economic instruments together with regulations and voluntary agreements can all be part of this strategy...read more

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Product Description: Documents the conflict between economic development and protection of biological diversity in tropical countries.

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