LANDMARKS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
"Landmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives That Have Changed Our World" is a high-impact, full-colour, up-to-the-minute guide to the key events and in initiatives of the last 20 years. Read the Climate Change section for free (436k PDF):
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"This book - informative, authoritative, reliable - provides a penetrating glance directly into the central core of one of today's most exciting supernova-like phenomena: the brilliant illuminating flash of Sustainability, following the virtual and continuing collapse of conventional ways of conducting business and caring for the planet Earth ... A brief 8-page chapter neatly summarizes each global indicator, gives prominent examples, quotes authorities, provides graphic photos and statistical displays, and includes authoritative pro-and-con bibliographies and website addresses ... Each of these capsule accounts is a small treasure beautifully packed with solid information and human drama. The publisher - Greenleaf Publishing - deserves a big pat on the back for the book's artistry and compact design. One of the most useful features is a Landmarks Timeline that records the yearly and multiple appearances of the Sustainability Landmarks ... So, who can use this book? A marvelous handbook for executives. It slips compactly into student backpacks. A savior for faculty looking for quick examples to squeeze into a lecture. A delight for website geeks and bloggers international. A jewel for libraries."
William C. Frederick, October 2009
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LANDMARKS FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Events and Initiatives That Have Changed Our World
Written by Wayne Visser on behalf of the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
Published 3 April 2009 | 200 pp | 200 x 160 mm | paperback
ISBN 978-1-906093-17-4 | List price: GBP25.00 / EUR37.50 / USD45.00
"Landmarks for Sustainability" is a high-impact, quick-reference guide to many of the most critical events and initiatives that have shaped our world, and the sustainable development agenda, over the past 20 years and more. These include high-profile historic events - like the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Rio Earth Summit, the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle and Genoa and the collapse of Enron - as well as more subtle but no less important developments, such as trends in fair trade, ethical codes and sustainable investment.
By shining a spotlight on these and other landmark events and initiatives, the book draws into sharp relief the most significant social and environmental challenges of our time - from climate change and the state of the planet to poverty and corruption. Equally importantly, however, more than half of the book is dedicated to constructive global responses, such as the boom in clean technology, the role of the World Economic and World Social Forums, and the growth of ISO 14001 and SA8000 standards.
Each of the 20 chapters follows a similar easy-access design, with inspiring quotations, compelling photographs, a timeline of associated events, a narrative description of trends, and spotlight features of specific initiatives or events, including charts, factboxes and suggestions for further reading and websites. Also included is the world's most comprehensive sustainability timeline, listing and dating 190 key sustainability-related events and initiatives that occurred between 1919 and 2008.
All these features combine to make "Landmarks" an essential and highly accessible resource for business managers, government officials, consultants, teachers, students and activists alike. For the first time, these crucial change agents will have a single-source reference book, which is not only packed with useful facts and figures, but is also fascinating to look at and full of inspirational material.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Polly Courtice, Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
A. GLOBAL CHALLENGES
I Environment, health and safety
1. State of the planet
With spotlights on the WWF Living Planet Index and the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
2. Crisis events
With spotlights on Exxon Valdez, Shell Brent Spar and Shell in Nigeria
3. Climate change
With spotlights on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
4. Health and safety
With spotlights on OHSAS 18001, 'Big Pharma' and access to AIDS drugs
II. Society and economy
5. Globalisation and its critics
With spotlights on the protests in Seattle and Genoa, and Live 8 and Make Poverty History
6. Poverty and development
With spotlights on the Millennium Development Goals and the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) model
7. Human rights
With spotlights on Nike and the UN Norms on Business and Human Rights
8. Corruption and transparency
With spotlights on Transparency International's indexes and the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
B. GLOBAL RESPONSES
III Leadership
9. World summits
With spotlights on the Rio Earth Summit and the Johannesburg World Summit
10. Business associations
With spotlights on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the UN Global Compact
11. Leadership initiatives
With spotlights on the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum
12. Social enterprise
With spotlights on Grameen Bank and the Schwab and Skoll Foundations
IV. Collaboration
13. Industry initiatives
With spotlights on Responsible Care and the Forest Stewardship Council
14. Financial initiatives
With spotlights on the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Equator Principles
15. Sustainable investment
With spotlights on sustainability indexes and clean-tech investment
16. Sustainable consumerism
With spotlights on eco-labelling and fairtrade
V. Management
17. Codes and standards
With spotlights on ISO 14001 and SA8000
18. Corporate governance
With spotlights on Enron's collapse and the King Report on Corporate Governance
19. Sustainability reporting
With spotlights on the Global Reporting Initiative and the Carbon Disclosure Project
20. Stakeholder engagement
With spotlights on McDonald's (McLibel and Super Size Me) and AccountAbility (AA1000 and Responsible Competitiveness Index)
Conclusion
Mike Peirce, Deputy Director, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership
Landmarks timeline
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