Product Description: Around the world the focus is on the relationship between ethics and governance codes and how widely this should be interpreted. Sustainability has three main accepted dimensions: economic growth, social responsibility, and environmental protection...read more

Product Description: Books on sustainable development have been appearing with increasing rapidity since the Earth Summit, 1992. The field of sustainable development is conceptually divided into four general dimensions: social, economic, environmental, and institutional...read more

Product Description: This two-volume book is the result of concern for translating specialized multi and transdisciplinary research into effective policy measures in the global South. Thus, researchers, academics, creative writers, thoerists, activists and policy-makers from different regions of the world have endeavored to highlight critical issues of social and economic development...read more

Product Description: Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local implementation. Comparing the situation on the ground with formal national environmental action plans, the book compares progress, or the lack of progress, between different sectors, cultures, regions and resources throughout the developing world...read more

Product Description: International Investment for Sustainable Development critically examines the interface between sustainability, development, and the governance of international investment. It challenges the conventional view that foreign direct investment is a 'miracle drug' for developing countries and exposes serious shortcomings in the current international investment regime...read more