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The Earthscan Reader on NGO Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Edwards, Alan Fowler
April 01, 2002
In the last ten years, NGOs have become a force for transformation in global politics and economics. Their numbers and size have grown dramatically and they have assumed far more extensive responsibilities as intermediaries between governments, businesses and other institutions, and local ...
The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Welford, Richard Starkey
January 01, 2000
This Reader contains a comprehensive collection of recent work by leading authors in the field of business and sustainable development. With 17 chapters organized thematically into sections covering 'business opportunities', 'environmental and social accounting', 'critical perspectives' and 'trade ...
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By David Satterthwaite
July 01, 1999
The last five years have brought an enormous growth in the literature on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. This collection brings together the most outstanding contributions from leading experts on the issues surrounding sustainable cities and urban ...
The Earthscan Reader in Population and Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Demeny, Geoffrey McNicoll
September 01, 1997
This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions to all the various aspects of the debate from the 1960s to the 1990s from a wide variety of authors including Kingsley ...
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development
1st Edition
Edited
By John Kirkby, Phil O'Keefe, Lloyd Timberlake
October 01, 1995
Such a huge number of books, journals and papers have been devoted to defining, assessing and implementing 'sustainable development' that students and other readers face information overload. Earthscan alone has published hundreds of essays and books on the subject. Now, though, the most ...
The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Anil Markandya, Julie Richardson
October 01, 1992
Environmental economics may hold the key to the successful management of the world's accelerating environmental problems, from transport and pollution to the wholesale degradation of much of the Third World, climate change and loss of the ozone layer. Increasingly a range of professionals and ...