Sustainability after Rio [electronic resource] / edited by David Crowther, Muhammad Azizul Islam.

The United Nations framework convention on climate change : objectives, outcomes and corporate accountability / Shamima Haque -- Developments in corporate water accounting and accountability / James Hazelton -- Would a water footprint label deliver greater accountability? A case study examination within the context of a book retailer and related parties / Michelle V. Stirk -- A preliminary analysis of the impact of UN MDGs and RIO+20 on corporate social accountability practices / Ameeta Jain, Muhammad Azizul Islam -- Toxic products and hazardous waste : the global asbestos issue / Lee Moerman, Sandra van der Laan -- Do CSR determinants stimulate profits : analysis of retail companies in UK / Ghulam Sughra, David Crowther -- Corporate social responsibility practices in Nigerian mining industry : host communities' perspectives / Joseph K. Achua, David A. Utume -- Corporate accountability in relation to human rights : have RIOs done enough? / Muhammad Azizul Islam, Annette Quayle, Shamima Haque -- Heterarchial networks for global corporations : emerging unstructured complexity in regulatory landscape / Roopinder Oberoi -- Lax privatisation from lax governance / Shahla Seifi, David Crowther -- Social responsibility of statutory auditors / Rute Abreu, Fa<U+0301>tima David.

It is now 20 years since the United Nations conference on environment and development, better known as the earth summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. An important achievement of the conference was an agreement on the climate change convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another was agreement to 'not carry out any activities on the lands of indigenous peoples that would cause environmental degradation or that would be culturally inappropriate'. Recently we have seen an updated and revised conference in Rio where the same issues were again discussed. Since then ideas about sustainability have changed considerably and to some extent they have merged with ideas about corporate social responsibility and about governance, determined by the economic and political fortunes of the actors involved. It is now time therefore to re-examine the concept of sustainability in the aftermath of this conference and to consider what issues are now considered pertinent around the world. This book therefore takes different positions concerning different aspects of this vital topic.