Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge differences in economic development and levels of consumption between North and South…
The environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very centre of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas. This title provides coverage of the development of international environmental governance from the 1980's onwards.
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the …
