Without participation of the United States, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mitigation of global climate change seems hardly conceivable. Despite the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and the reluctance of the Bush administration to engage in Post-Kyoto negotiations, recent...

"This very timely and important collection draws together some of the world's leading thinkers on environment and development to debate one of the most important issues of our time: sustainable development. They very usefully remind us all that in order to be politically sustainable, the...

"Policy makers across the globe, and especially within the transatlantic arena, are faced with and enormous challenge -- the sustainability challenge. Building upon the growing presence of sustainability as a topic in natural science and ecological movements, this volume addresses the topic from...