Growing Pains

by Wehrmeyer, Walter; Mulugetta, Yacob

• ISBN13: 9781874719137
• ISBN10: 1874719136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Greenleaf Pubns

Summary

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.
This new book presents a body of work that will provide essential reading for business 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Globalisation
The Environmental Challenge of Going Global	p. 28
An Essay on Biodiversity and Globalisation	p. 35
Joint Implementation of Climate Change? Distortions in Practice and Effects on Developing Countries	p. 46
Financial Globalisation and Sustainable Development in Mexico	p. 58
Focus on Business
The Effect of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Competitiveness of Selected Industries in Developing Countries	p. 74
Multinational Corporations' Environmental Performance in Developing Countries: The Aluminum Company of America	p. 84
ISO 14001: The Severe Challenge for China. An Overview of the Problems China Faced in the Implementation and Certification of ISO 14001	p. 101
Environmental Management, Crime and Information: A Russian Case Study	p. 117
National Focus
Driving Forces and Barriers to the Implementation of Sound Environmental Management in the Andean Region of Latin America	p. 132
Environmental Management in Uncertain Economies	p. 148
Just Green Marketing? State, Business and Environmental Management in Egypt	p. 160
Environmental Management in Thailand: Achievements, Barriers and Future Trends	p. 172
The Colombian Road to Environmental Management	p. 188
Trade and Environment
Trade Liberalisation and the Developing World: The Environmental Impact of the Uruguay Round	p. 206
Reaping the Benefits: Trade Opportunities for Developing-Country Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production	p. 219
Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment and Communities in the Developing World: A Synthesis of the Contemporary Debate	p. 232
Logging versus Recycling: Problems in the Industrial Ecology of Pulp Manufacturing in South-East Asia	p. 243
Environmental Management and Sustainable Development
Environmental Management and Organisational Change: The Impact of the World Bank	p. 256
Sustainable Development and the Environment: Lessons from the Development Experience of Kerala State in India	p. 270
Searching for Sustainability in the Marshall Islands: Development Dreams Clash with Ecological Reality	p. 283
The Role of Stakeholder Participation: Linkages to Stakeholder Impact Assessment and Social Capital in Camisea, Peru	p. 296
Indonesia in the 21st Century: Environment at the Crossroads	p. 309
Competing Discourses of Environmental and Water Management in Post-Apartheid South Africa	p. 322
Bibliography	p. 337
Biographies	p. 353
Index	p. 357
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