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From Rio+20 to a New Development Agenda
Building a Bridge to a Sustainable Future
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 made major progress in refocusing the goals of sustainable development and an agenda for the future. Written by practitioners and participants involved in the...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Only One Earth
The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the...
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity
A Planet in Peril
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity recently confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded....
Published April 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Climate Change and Energy Insecurity
The Challenge for Peace, Security and Development
Climate change is now recognised as one of the greatest challenges facing the international community and when coupled with energy production and use - the most significant contributor to climate change - and the related security problems the double threat to international security and human...
Published October 22nd 2009 by Routledge
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Human and Environmental Security
An Agenda for Change
Security has tended to be seen as based on military force, yet this illusion is crumbling, literally and figuratively, before our eyes in the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. It is now clear that real human security, defined by the Commission on Human Security as 'protecting vital...
Published June 30th 2005 by Routledge
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How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
'Felix Dodds is the Milo Minderbinder of the stakeholder world!' Alex Kirby, BBC 'An invaluable tool for anyone wishing to understand and contribute effectively to the competition of good ideas that intergovernmental meetings should be' Paul Hohnen, former Strategic Director, Greenpeace...
Published February 29th 2004 by Routledge
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Multi-stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability
Beyond Deadlock and Conflict
Governments, business, international bodies and local groups are turning to multi-stakeholder processes to find practical ways forward. This book explains how MSPs can be organized to deliver their potential for successful resolution of complex issues and for sustainable development. It includes...
Published December 31st 2001 by Routledge
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Earth Summit 2002
A New Deal, 2nd Edition
'As we start the preparations for the Earth Summit in 2002, 10 years from Rio and 30 years from Stockholm, we need to set targets and dates that are realistic to deliver the change that is needed. There will also need to be a debate on the international machinery to achieve what we want, and 2002...
Published November 30th 2001 by Routledge