Multinational corporations are not merely the problem in environmental concerns, but could also be part of the solution. The oil industry and climate change provide the clearest example of how the two are linked; what is less well-known is how the industry is responding to these concerns.This...

9780719079474 -- 9780719079474 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Changing IOs: identity andsocialisation -- 3 The World Bank and new norms of development -- 4 IFC and norms of sustainable finance...

This is about policies and strategies for ecologically rational governance and uses the Swedish case study to ask whether it is possible to move form a traditional environmental policy to a broad, integrated pursuit of sustainable development, as illustrated through the 'Sustainable Sweden'...