It is now 20 years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. An important achievement of the conference was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another was agreement to 'not carry out any activities on the lands of indigenous peoples that would cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate'. Recently we have seen an updated and revised conference in Rio where the same issues were again discussed. Since then ideas about sustainability have changed considerably and to some extent they have merged with ideas about corporate social responsibility and about governance, determined by the economic and political fortunes of the actors involved. It is now time therefore to re-examine the concept of sustainability in the aftermath of this conference and to consider what issues are now considered pertinent around the world. This book therefore takes different positions concerning different aspects of this vital topic.
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Eleven papers assess changes brought about by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Millennium Development Goals.The contributors examine corporate social responsibility practices, corporate water accounting standards, global regulation of asbestos, the positive returns of ethical business practices, and the effects of mining on host communities, privatization of former state enterprises, and the role of women as statutory auditors. -- Annotation (c)2016 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781785604454
Author David Crowther
Format Hardback
Page Count 280
Imprint Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 562g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm