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United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Panel on System Wide Coherence and the environment: incremental change or UN reform?
Wilkins, Hugh - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 4, pp. 285-300
The UN High-Level Panel on System Wide Coherence is to explore how the United Nations system can work more coherently and effectively in the areas of environment, development and humanitarian assistance. Regarding environmental issues, the Panel has focused on: mainstreaming environment in...
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United Nations Secretary-General's High Level Panel on System Wide Coherence and the environment: incremental change or UN reform?
Wilkins, Hugh - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 6 (2006) 4, pp. 285-300
The UN High-Level Panel on System Wide Coherence is to explore how the United Nations system can work more coherently and effectively in the areas of environment, development and humanitarian assistance. Regarding environmental issues, the Panel has focused on: mainstreaming environment in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461251
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Civil Society and Accountability
Kaldor, Mary - In: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities 4 (2003) 1, pp. 5-27
to the poor. It addresses the issue of accountability as it relates to civil society, defining "moral' accountability as … an organization's accountability towards the people it was established to help, and procedural accountability as internal … between "moral' and "procedural' accountability applies primarily to non-governmental organizations, a subset of civil society …
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper focuses on Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The economic sectors have undergone significant restructuring. This restructuring has been concentrated on production capacities, quality and efficiency, thus contributing to economic...
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Clustering of Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Potentials and Limitations
Oberthür, Sebastian - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 2 (2002) 4, pp. 317-340
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A survey of national sustainable development indicators
Tasaki, Tomohiro; Kameyama, Yasuko; Hashimoto, Seiji; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 4, pp. 337-361
We surveyed sustainable development indicators (SDIs) adopted by 28 national governments, regions, and international organisations and compiled them into a database. The aims of this study were to understand the elements of sustainable development (SD), examine SDIs developed in certain fields...
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Assessing business performance: two models for environmental information
Raiborn, Cecily; Joyner, Brenda - In: International Journal of Business Performance Management 8 (2006) 2/3, pp. 246-258
External stakeholders must consider four public responsibility areas of organisational behaviour that contribute to long-run financial viability: 1. environmental responsibility; 2. social responsibility; 3. employee health and safety; 4. ethics. Failure in any one of these areas could be the...
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Corporate Sustainability Reporting: A Study in Disingenuity?
Aras, Güler; Crowther, David - In: Journal of Business Ethics 87 (2009) 1, pp. 279-288
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The influence of financial situation on environmental information disclosure in China's chemical industry
Zhang, Junrui; Guo, Huiting; Li, Bin; Wang, Wei - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 3, pp. 272-286
From the perspective of voluntary disclosure, this paper examines empirically the impact of specific corporate financial factors on environment voluntary disclosure. Using a sample of 138 chemical industry listed companies in China, we find that more and more companies disclose environment...
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Is more information always better? An analysis applied to information-based policies for environmental protection
Bougherara, Douadia; Grolleau, Gilles; Mzoughi, Naoufel - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 10 (2007) 3, pp. 197-213
Environmental policy has intensively focused on information-based instruments that seek to change agents' behaviour through information provision. This information provision is generally considered as likely to ultimately improve environmental quality. We suggest a new and complementary way to...
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