Global Challenges : Furthering the Multilateral Process for Sustainable Development.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 The multilateral process for sustainable development: past, present and future -- 2 What did the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) accomplish? Suggestions for an outcome assessment -- Part 1: Institutions and the development of the process -- 3 The road to Rio: early efforts on environment and development -- 4 The negotiating system of environment and development: a ten-year review -- 5 A commission will lead them? The UN Commission on Sustainable Development and UNCED follow-up -- Part 2: Actors and their interplay -- 6 A tale of three cities: developing countries in global environmental negotiations -- 7 Friends and foes: industrialised countries in multilateral environmental negotiations -- 8 Three decades of NGO activism in international environmental negotiations: who influences NGOs? -- 9 Street-wise provocations: the Global Justice Movement's take on sustainable development -- 10 Partnerships for sustainable development: the role of Type II agreements -- Part 3: Process functions/cross-cutting themes -- 11 Knowledge processes in decision-making on sustainability: challenges for the future -- 12 Financing for sustainable development -- 13 Capacity development for the environment: North and South -- 14 Making the link: synergies in international regime governance -- Conclusion -- 15 An evolving sustainable development regime -- Abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Index.

Focusing on the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, this book presents a perspective on the continuing global environment and development policy process and analyses the inter linkages between the process, trends and cross-cutting issues that set the conditions for the global efforts to achieve sustainable development.

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