Sustainable Development  

Emerging Issues

• Trade and Environment
  

Major Assessments

• Ecosystems and Human Well-being - 2003
  A Report of the Conceptual Framework Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
  The 245-page report lays out the approaches, assumptions, processes, and parameters scientists are using in the study. It offers decision-makers a mechanism to identify options that can better achieve core human development and sustainability goals and better understand the trade-offs in decisions about development and the environment.
  The reports are available for purchase through Island Press.

• THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABILITY: An Action Agenda for the Global Environment - 2002
  Global Environment Facility; Sept. 2002. Washington, USA: GEF, 124p. ISBN 1-884122-79-5.
  This book describes how to move from words to action for global sustainability and describes dozens of successful sustainable development initiatives that are models for the future.

• THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 2002
  Produced by the IAEA Division of Public Information, June 2002.

• GLOBAL CHALLENGE GLOBAL OPPORTUNITY, TRENDS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 2002
  Published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
  August 2002.

• CRITICAL TRENDS: Global Change and Sustainable Development - 1997
  Department of Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development
  United Nations, New York, 1997, ST/ESA/255 - 76 p.
  The next Critical Trends report is planned for 2002.

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2003
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2003.
  The 2003 report focusses on the Millennium Development Goals.
  ISBN 0-19-5219 88-0

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2002
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2002.
  Published annually. The 2002 report focusses on deepening democracy in a fragmented world.
  ISBN 0-19-521915-5

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2001
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2001. 290 p.
  Published annually. The 2001 report focusses on new technologies and human development.

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT - 2000
  United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, 2000. 290 p.
  Published annually. The 2000 report focusses on human rights and human development.

• The Materiality of Social, Environmental and Corporate Governance Issues to Equity Pricing - 2004
  UNEP, 2004.
  11 Sector Studies by Brokerage House Analysts at the Request of the UNEP Finance Initiative Asset Management Working Group.
  June 2004: UNEP Finance Initiative.
  A group of 12 fund manager representing USD 1.6 Trillion of assets under management call on investors, government and business leaders to embed environmental, social, and governance best practice at the heart of our markets.
   
    

• Women and the Environment - 2004
  UNEP, 2004. Division of Policy Development and Law.
  ISBN: 92-807-2442-8.
  This publication makes the often hidden links between women and the environment visible, with an explicit focus on the gender-related aspects of land, water and biodiversity conservation and management.
  

• IMPLEMENTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 2002
  UNEP, November 2002. ISBN: 1 84064 913 5.
  Contents: Preface Introduction Part I: Methodological Issues Towards Integrative Analysis Part II: Participatory Frameworks Part III: Perspectives in Ecological Economic Modelling Index

• INDUSTRY AS A PARTNER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 10 YEARS AFTER RIO: THE UNEP ASSESSMENT - 2002
  UNEP; 2002. ISBN: 9280721976. (English and French, May 2002)

• HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Challenges for the United Nations in the New Millennium - 2001
  United Nations University, ISBN 92-808-1069-3
  Edited by Hans van Ginkel, Brendan Barrett, Julius Court, and Jerry Velasquez
  2001, 160 pages

• TRADE, ENVIRONMENT, AND THE MILLENNIUM - 2001
  United Nations University, 2nd edition, ISBN 92-808-1064-2
  Edited by Gary P. Sampson and W. Bradnee Chambers
  2001, 280 pages.

• REPORT OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - 2002
  Johannesburg, South Africa,
  26 August - 4 September.
  United Nations • New York, 2002.

	Sustainable Dev. News
	New Human Development Report 2003

 

	Resources
	Agenda 21, Chapter 2 GEF UN DSD FAO - Sustain. Development UN Millenium Environmental Sustainability TF UNDP Capacity 21 World Summit 2002 WTO/Environment Non-UN resources IISD/Linkages/Sustainable Dev.