'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 International '...the book is a valuable resource for people willing to understand the practice of international negotiation and for those preparing to be influential negotiators.' Political Studies Review Organizations spend considerable resources taking staff to international meetings, often without...
'Felix Dodds is the Milo Minderbinder of the stakeholder world ' Alex Kirby, BBC 'An invaluable tool for anyone wishing to understand and contribute e...
Security has tended to be seen as based on military force, yet this illusion is crumbling before our eyes in the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa. This book tackles the global human security problem across the range of core issues including terrorism, nuclear proliferation, access to water, food security, and loss of biodiversity.
Security has tended to be seen as based on military force, yet this illusion is crumbling before our eyes in the conflict zones of Iraq, Afghanistan a...
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 equatorial Africa. It is now clear that real human security, defined by the Commission on Human Security as 'protecting vital freedoms', can only be achieved if the full range of issues that underpin human security - including environmental integrity - are addressed. This ground-breaking book, authored by prominent international decision-makers, tackles the global human security problem across the range of core...
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...
'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 will be significant in setting out the direction. This book has drawn in some of the key people who are working to make 2002 a significant event' FROM THE FOREWORD BY KLAUS TOPFER, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME AND CENTRE FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS At the Earth Summit in Rio in...
'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 r...
Governments, businesses, international organizations, local groups and numerous other publicly engaged bodies are turning to multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) because conventional party politics is just not working. MSPs involve bringing together all those whose interests are at stake in crucial social, economic, developmental and environmental debates, and finding practical ways forward as well as ways in which these might be implemented. The new politics is about recognizing the rights of, and the risks faced by, all those involved, and about moving beyond conflicts towards a more...
Governments, businesses, international organizations, local groups and numerous other publicly engaged bodies are turning to multi-stakeholder process...
Provides an assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity - confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded. This title is suitable for conservationists, students and those concerned to redress the damage being done to the natural world.
Provides an assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity - confirmed as one of the ...
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.
Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact...
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life bac...
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.
Written by practitioners and participants involved in the multilateral process of negotiations, this book presents a unique insider analysis of not only what happened and why, but also where the outcomes might impact...
Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life bac...
"A visionary and immensely practical approach to reforming today's bubble finance and taming its global casino. Verhagen ...] illuminates the win-win solutions possible when we combine monetary transformation with low-carbon, renewable resource strategies and equitable approaches to sustainable development." -Hazel Henderson, President of Ethical Markets Media, author and creator of The Green Transition Scoreboard (r) As climate change continues to threaten the earth and as the global financial crisis lingers, governments and communities need to take charge of their own and global monetary...
"A visionary and immensely practical approach to reforming today's bubble finance and taming its global casino. Verhagen ...] illuminates the win-win...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030. Written by three authors who have been engaged in the development of the SDGs from the beginning, this book offers an insider view of the process and a unique entry into what will be seen as one of the most significant negotiations and global policy agendas of the twenty-first century.
The book reviews how the SDGs were developed, what happened...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by...
