Experts from around the world analyse the prospects for sustainable develoment on all the major policy fronts following the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. Topics range from security to finance, from urban governance to radical partnerships, migration and health to access to resources and the role of the market. They examine the contributions that governments, business and civil society can each make to improving our prospects and set out the agenda for those working to achieve sustainability. The book comes with a free CD-ROM of Civil Society documents on the World...

In June 1997, heads of government and senior representatives from over 130 countries met in New York to consider what progress had been made since the first Earth Summit in 1992, and la decide upon priorities for the future. Earth Summit II presents the principal official documents agreed al the Summit alongside an authoritative analysis of where progress is and is not being made, the reasons for this, and the priorities of the parties involved. Finally, the authors look forward to the ten-year follow-up in 2002, and propose methods for ensuring that that event is both effective and...