Business and the environment
- Environmental pollution during the manufacture of electronic products
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Current use of hazardous chemicals and practices in the manufacture of electronic equipment is resulting in contamination of the environment with many hazardous chemicals, according to this report. To make matters worse, commonly used wastewater treatment processes are unable to deal with many of the chemicals used, including certain brominated flame-retardants and heavy metals.
Latest Additions
- How to handle trade in timber better to enhance peace and stability in the Upper Great Lakes region
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2007)
- This report analyses how trade in timber produced in the eastern DRC and Southern Sudan can contribute to stability and economic development in the region. Presenting an overview of trade volumes and ...
Coffee in Tanzania: key trends in sustainability standards
- ( E.,A. Lazaro;J. Makindara;F.,T.,M. Kilima / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008)
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One of the key trends characterising the agro-food trade in the last two decades has been the increasing complexity of public and private standards that are applied to imports into developed countr...
- How are conservation policies shaped by neoliberalism?: a collection of critical essays
- ( J. Igoe;D. Brockington / Conservation and Society , 2008)
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The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broa...
- Does mandatory information disclosure generate positive responses for firms?
- ( A.K. Chatterji;M.W. Toffel / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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This paper suggests that as national governments lose the ability to regulate activities of business, interest groups and concerned citizens are turning to private governance for its regulation. Th...
What impact has a decade of GM crops had on Argentina's agriculture?
- ( E.J. Trigo;E.J. Cap / Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (National Institute for Agricultural Technology), Argentina , 2006)
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Argentina is the world's second largest producer of genetically modified (GM) crops, after the United States, with over 17 million hectares planted. This paper explores the assertion that the intro...
Do social ratings provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance of corporates?
- ( A.K Chatterji;D.I. Levine;M.W. Toffel / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2007)
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Just like credit ratings improve transparency and efficiency in debt capital markets by reducing the information imbalance between borrowers and lenders, social ratings aim to provide social invest...
- Is the livestock breeding industry damaging smallholders and the environment?
- ( S. Gura / GRAIN , 2008)
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This paper explores developments in the global livestock industry and their impact on smallholder farmers and the environment in developing countries. In particular, it considers the effect of...
- Assessing the potential of carbon sequestration services
- ( W. Brinkman / European Tropical Forest Research Network , 2002)
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This newletter contains four short articles discussing the potential for financing carbon sequestration services. The articles particularly focus on this issue in the context of the Kyoto...
- How are changes in the global poultry industry affecting small farmers?
- ( GRAIN , 2008)
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This paper examines contract farming in the poultry sectors of Brazil and Thailand. It explores the benefits and problems that small farmers face as a result of large company control over the poult...
What support is needed to build a market for fair trade timber?
- ( D. Macqueen / Sustainable Markets Group, IIED , 2008)
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Unlike coffee and cotton, timber has yet to become a fair trade commodity. This two-page briefing argues that the time has now come to change this. It argues that a partnership with the fair trade ...
