Год выпуска: 2009 Автор: Mark Everard Издательство: Страниц: 176 ISBN: 1845642082
Описание
This highly accessible book introduces biodiversity as a clear and pressing priority for business and provides an up-to-date briefing on biodiversity issues and concerns for business, students and academics, NGOs, government and regulators, and other interested parties. It outlines practical ase studies from around the world to demonstrate principles and consequences provides a guide for practical decision-making in business (and other organizations).Biodiversity used to be an issue of high acknowledged importance, for example following the Convention on Biological Diversity (introduced at the Rio Summit in 1992) and the UK's first Biodiversity Strategy shortly thereafter. Yet, despite subsequent global commitments to reversing the rate of species loss at the WSSD (Johannesburg 2002) later endorsed by the EU (the Gothenburg Target), the key role of business in achieving a sustainable relationship with biodiversity has received little explicit attention over recent years. The writing...
