Governance and Sustainability : New Challenges for States, Companies and Civil Society.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. Governance and global sustainability: setting the stage -- 1 Globalisation and governance: sustainability between fragmentation and integration -- 2 Governance and sustainability in a dynamic world -- 3 Globalisation means new challenges for sustainability -- 4 Developing a global partnership for development: critical issues and proposals for trade and finance -- Part 2. Cross-cutting issues -- 5 The role of social learning on the road to sustainability -- 6 What role for politics in the governance of complex innovation systems? New concepts, requirements and processes of an interactive technology policy for sustainability -- 7 Gender mainstreaming: pathway to democratisation? -- 8 Governance and participatory approaches in Europe -- 9 Partnerships and networks in global environmental governance: moving to the next stage -- Part 3. Actors in global governance and their changing roles -- 10 The role of the nation-state in environmental protection: the challenge of globalisation -- 11 Governance and integrated product policy -- 12 The role of voluntary initiatives in sustainable corporate governance -- 13 Good company citizenship: does governance change the role of companies in society? -- 14 The UN Global Compact and Global Reporting Initiative: where principles meet performance -- 15 Global, governance: challenges for civil society and democracy -- 16 Civil society plus global governance: what can we expect? -- About the contributors -- Abbreviations -- Index.

Examines integrating the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development, within the framework of governance processes. This book covers the key actors, their agendas and methods, forms of organization, problems and limits, and real-life examples of governance at the regional, national and international level.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.