Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Authors and contributors
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Chapter 1. From Malthus to sustainable development
  • Chapter 2. Challenges of sustainable development
  • Chapter 3. Global environmental issues
  • Chapter 4. Sustainable development indicators
  • Chapter 5. Environmental assessment
  • Chapter 6. Environmental management: trends and policies
  • Chapter 7. Legislation, international law and multilateral environmental agreements
  • Chapter 8. Social dimensions and policies
  • Chapter 9. The economics of sustainability
  • Chapter 10. Sustainability: externalities, valuation and time externalities
  • Chapter 11. Natural resource accounting
  • Chapter 12. The role of international institutions
  • Chapter 13. International cooperation
  • Chapter 14. Sustainable development: crisis, conflict and compromise
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index