Sustainable development

This policy brief examines how the inter-linkages approach to sustainable development governance can be used to help make sustainable development financing more effective and efficient. It provides an outline of the key processes and trends that serve to shape the current financing environment and provides concrete, practical, examples of how the interlinkages approach can, or has been, applied to the issue of financing in order to use the above trends to the advantage of sustainable development goals.

Transforming Multilateral Diplomacy provides the inside view of the negotiations that produced the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Not only did this process mark a sea change in how the UN conducts multilateral diplomacy, it changed the way the UN does its business.

In The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, Dr. Jim L. Bowyer clearly documents an ethically bankrupt position that underlies much of our environmental policy. High consumption in wealthy countries usually goes hand-in-hand with resistance to domestic raw materials extraction and half-hearted interest in recycling. Because of this, the world's wealthiest countries increasingly rely on imported raw materials from poorer nations to fuel consumption.

Entre los años 2004 a 2007, la UICN desarrolló el proyecto “Manejo Integrado de las Cuencas Asociadas al Volcán Tacaná”, período en el que el paso del huracán Stan dejó consecuencias devastadoras.

In this book, Bernard Amadei addresses the role of engineering in poverty reduction and human development. He introduces a framework to help engineers conduct small-scale projects in communities vulnerable to the consequences of a wide range of adverse events. His framework combines concepts and tools traditionally used by development agencies with techniques from engineering project management and systems thinking.

Annotated with introductions and explanations of key environmental concepts, problems and prospects, this is a collection of pieces on the theme of global environmental politics from a diversity of viewpoints. The contributors highlight important political developments as well as environmental challenges within a rapidly changing international system.

Claro e concreto na abordagem da complexidade amazônica, este livro tem como foco a gestão do grande bioma em seus múltiplos aspectos. Expõe fluentemente as questões dominantes no debate interno ou externo sobre os seus principais desafios: biodiversidade, riqueza hídrica, ideias e projetos, desmatamento, conflitos, quadro social, estratégias empresariais. Isso é feito de forma clara, traço marcante da obra do autor. Divulga-se, igualmente, um survey exclusivo com dez grandes empresas atuantes na Amazônia, com uma minuciosa descrição de suas atividades sustentáveis.