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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
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