Environmental management systems may play an important role in environmental pollution
control. Given China's rapid economic development and increases in environmental …

This book provides the first systematic comparative analysis of climate security discourses. It
analyses the securitisation of climate change in four different countries: USA, Germany …

Although 'peri-urban'and 'rur-urban'growth patterns are now prominent in previously rural
areas of Latin America, there has been little exploration of the implication of these patterns …

The urgent need to revert the ecological and social equity crises of the current development
model and realize the potential of sustainable development has led several disciplines to …

This paper argues that participation in natural resource management, which is often coupled
with moves for more local ownership of decisionmaking, is based on three sets of …

Since the adoption of dramatic national water policy reforms in 1992, Mexico's water
governance paradigm has had time to mature. This article analyzes Mexico's experience …

Financial institutions have embraced the idea of corporate social responsibility (CSR) over
the past decade, particularly in the banking sector, even as they have faced challenges in …

In the network society, the capacity to deal with societal issues is spread among interacting
actors in governance networks. Knowledge about this capacity, often called “governance …

This book examines environmental policy change in twenty-eight Central and Eastern
European and Latin American countries against a background of significant political and …

An environmental frontrunner in the Central and Eastern European regions since the late
1990s, Hungary followed a gradual but steady approximation progress to the EU …