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Book: Environmental Management in Developing Countries (fwd)
by David A. Sonnenfeld
17 November 1999 03:19 UTC
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:17:45 +0000
>From: John Stuart <greenleaf@worldscope.co.uk>
>To: ENVIRONMENT TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY
<envtecsoc@csf.colorado.edu>
>Subject: Environmental Management in Developing
Countries
>
>APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>We would like to announce the publication on November, 22nd,
1999 of
>
>GROWING PAINS:
>ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
>
>Edited by Walter Wehrmeyer and Yacob Mulugetta
>Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey,
UK
>
>368pp 234 x 156 mm
>Hardback: ISBN 1 874719 13 6
>£35.00/US$65.00
>Paperback: ISBN 1 874719 23 3
>£19.95/US$40.00
>
>Environmental management is a global phenomenon, embracing
all
>businesses in all countries, whether or not there already exists
an
>organised response to managing environmental impacts.
>
>Today, there are gross inequalities between the world's richest
and
>poorest nations in terms of income distribution, consumption
patterns,
>access to resources and environmental impact. Yet both the
developed
>North and the developing South are committed, at least in words,
to
>achieving sustainable development.
>
>Public awareness of environmental issues in the North has been
rising in
>recent years and further degradation is now largely minimised
through
>more stringent regulatory regimes, voluntary agreements and
growing
>consumer and stakeholder pressure on corporations. Still, the
North is
>continuing to lead an environmentally unsustainable lifestyle
as
>environmental improvements are nullified by overall increases
in
>consumption levels.
>
>In the South, a billion people still do not have access to the
most
>basic needs. Poor countries need to accelerate their consumption
growth
>if they are to ensure that the lives of their people are
enriched.
>However, with rapid economic growth and corresponding increases
in
>consumption now under way, their environmental impact is soon to
become
>substantially greater. In a world that strives towards stemming
global
>crises such as climate change, the path already taken by the
rich and
>high-growth economies over the past century cannot be repeated
by the
>South if the desired objective is to create a future that is
truly
>sustainable.
>
>'Growing Pains' examines environmental management in the South
from a
>number of perspectives. It is designed to stimulate the
discussion about
>the role that corporations and national and international
organisations
>play in sustainable development. It does not offer
panaceas, as each
>country has its own problems and opportunities; and, after
almost 50
>years of failed panacea-oriented economic development policy
transfer
>from the North to the South, it is time to abandon hope for
universal
>solutions and instead look to individual approaches that
work.
>
>The book is divided into five themes: globalisation; the role
of
>business; a focus on national strategies; trade and the
environment; and
>the organisational and structural challenges of sustainable
development.
>
>With contributions from an outstanding collection of authors in
both the
>developed and developing worlds including UNIDO; the
Thailand
>Environment Institute, Arthur D. Little, Inc., Shell Peru; IUCN,
the
>Russian Academy of Sciences and IIED, this important and unique
new book
>presents a body of work that will provide essential reading
for
>businesses working in developing countries, environmental
and
>developmental NGOs and researchers engaged in the debate and
sharing of
>best practice in this increasingly critical subject
area.
>
>"Growing Pains is a monitor of how well we are doing in
protecting
>environmental goods in developing countries. Key
actorsÑtheoreticians
>(development economists in particular), government ministers and
policy
>planners, chief executive officers in the private sector and
their
>advisers, and heads of institutions (national and
multilateral)Ñwill
>surely identify with specific issues explored in this
book."
>
>Carlos Magarinos, Director-General,
>United Nations Industrial Development Organisation
>
>Table of Contents
>
>Foreword: Carlos Magarinos, Director-General, United Nations
Industrial
>Development Organisation
>
>Introduction: Walter Wehrmeyer and Yacob Mulugetta, University
of
>Surrey, UK
>
>Section 1: Globalisation
>1. The Environmental Challenge of Going Global
>Gilbert S. Hedstrom, Ronald A.N. McLean and Bernhard H. Metzger,
Arthur
>D. Little, Inc., USA
>2. An Essay on Biodiversity and Globalisation
>Frank Vorhies, IUCN: The World Conservation Organisation,
Switzerland
>3. Joint Implementation of Climate Change? Distortions in
Practice and
>Effects on Developing Countries
>Neil E. Harrison, University of Wyoming, USA
>4. Financial Globalisation and Sustainable Development in
Mexico
>David Barkin, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico
>
>Section 2: Focus on Business
>5. The Effect of Environmental Regulations on Industrial
Competitiveness
>of Selected Industries in Developing Countries
>Ralph (Skip) Luken, United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation,
>Austria
>6. Multinational Corporations' Environmental Performance in
Developing
>Countries: The Aluminum Company of America
>Dennis A. Rondinelli, University of North Carolina, USA, and
Gyula
>Vastag, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan,
USA
>7. ISO 14001: The Severe Challenge for China. An Overview on
the
>Problems China Faced in the Implementation and Certification of
ISO
>14001
>Di Chang-Xing (Mike), ERM Certification and Verification
Service, China
>8. Environmental Management, Crime and Information: A Russian
Case Study
>Alexey A. Voinov, University of Maryland, USA, Irina P.
Glazyrina, GEF
>Project, Russia, and Bruno Pavoni and Nadezhda A. Zharova,
University of
>Venice, Italy
>
>Section 3: National Focus
>9. Driving Forces and Barriers to the Implementation of
Sound
>Environmental Management in the Andean Region of Latin
America
>Percy Garcia, Julia Gonzalez and Dixon Thompson, University of
Calgary,
>Canada
>10. Environmental Management in Uncertain Economies
>Alexey A. Voinov, University of Maryland, USA, Irina P.
Glazyrina, GEF
>Project, Russia, and Bruno Pavoni and Nadezhda A. Zharova,
University of
>Venice, Italy
>11. Just Green Marketing? State, Business and Environmental
Management
>in Egypt
>Jeannie Sowers, Princeton University, USA
>12. Environmental Management in Thailand: Achievements, Barriers
and
>Future Trends
>Mandar Parasnis, Thailand Environment Institute
>13. The Colombian Road to Environmental Management
>Emilio Latorre, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
>
>Section 4: Trade and the Environment
>14. Trade Liberalisation and the Developing World: The
Environmental
>Impact of the Uruguay Round
>Matthew A. Cole, University of Birmingham, UK
>15. Reaping the Benefits: Trade Opportunities for
Developing-Country
>Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production
>Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts, International Institute for
Environment
>and Development, UK
>16. Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment
and
>Communities in the Developing World: A Synthesis of the
Contemporary
>Debate
>Titus Moser and Damian Miller, Cambridge University, UK
>17. Logging versus Recycling: Problems in the Industrial Ecology
of Pulp
>Manufacturing in South-East Asia
>David A. Sonnenfeld, Washington State University, USA
>
>Section 5: Environmental Management and Sustainable
Development
>18. Environmental Management and Organisational Change: The
Impact of
>the World Bank
>Ans Kolk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
>19. Sustainable Development and the Environment: Lessons from
the
>Development Experience of Kerala State in India
>Govindan Parayil, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology
>20. Searching for Sustainability in the Marshall Islands:
Development
>Dreams Clash with Ecological Reality
>Barbara A. Ribbens and Eric Ribbens, University of Connecticut,
USA
>21. The Role of Stakeholder Participation: Linkages to
Stakeholder
>Impact Assessment and Social Capital in Camisea, Peru
>Murray Jones, Shell Prospecting & Development, Peru
>22. Indonesia in the 21st Century: Environment at the
Crossroads
>Peter Koffel, Murdoch University, Australia
>23. Competing Discourses of Environmental and Water Management
in
>Post-Apartheid South Africa
>Patrick Bond, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and
Robyn
>Stein, Attorney in environmental and water law, South
Africa
>
>To order this title online, please go to:
>
>Alternatively, please contact:
>
>Samantha Self
>Greenleaf Publishing
>Aizlewood Business Centre,
>Aizlewood's Mill,
>Sheffield S3 8GG
>UK
>Tel: +44 (0)114 282 3475
>Fax: +44 (0)114 282 3476
>e-mail: greenleaf@worldscope.co.uk
>
>
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David A. SONNENFELD, Ph.D.
Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Scholar
Institute of International Studies
University of California
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Berkeley, CA 94720-2308
U.S.A.
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