Sustainability after Rio (Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility, 8) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785604457 ISBN 13: 9781785604454

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

David Crowther - De Montfort University, UK
M. Azizul Islam - Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785604457
• ISBN 13: 9781785604454
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Crowther David, Islam Muhammad Azizul