Vom 26. August bis 4. September 2002 fand in Johannesburg der »Weltgipfel für Nachhaltige Entwicklung« statt. Für Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Bundesministerin für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, wurden »wichtige Impulse für Nachhaltige Entwicklung in der ganzen Breite des...

Vom 26. August bis 4. September 2002 fand in Johannesburg der »Weltgipfel für Nachhaltige Entwicklung« statt. Für Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Bundesministerin für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, wurden »wichtige Impulse für Nachhaltige Entwicklung in der ganzen Breite des...

Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...

In practice, questions of ecological company policy deal much more with technical questions than with organisational ones. In many guides for the implementation of an Environmental Management System the development of the organisation that first has to grow into this new task has not yet been...

Sustainable production and the sustainable use of biotic resources have becomeincreasingly significant. This results in the demand by society for a sustainable useof biotic resources especially within the nutrition sector. But also their use for industrial purposes had led research and...

Transnational corporations' (TNCs) economic operations cover numerous countriesand can be diverted between several continents. These units have reached a level ofsignificance, having not only economic, but also social and environmental implications. This justifies that they shall be treated...