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Growing Pains - Environmental Management in Developing Countries (Hardcover)
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Growing Pains - Environmental Management in Developing Countries (Hardcover)
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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 minimized 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 organizations 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: globalization; the role of
business; a focus on national strategies; trade and the
environment; and the organizational 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.
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