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Encyclopedia of Community :From the Village to the Virtual World

Editors:
Karen Christensen Berkshire Publishing Group
David Levinson Berkshire Publishing Group
Robin Jarrett University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dennis Judd University of Illinois, Chicago
William Metcalf Griffith University
Roberta Moudry Cornell University
Ray Oldenburg University of West Florida
Sonya Salamon University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Sander Harvard University
Michael Shuman Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
Barry Wellman University of Toronto
Michael Zuckerman University of Pennsylvania

ISBN:0761925988 Price:$800  First Edition, 4 volumes, 1,800 pages, 2003

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 2/10 :The Business of Sustainability

Editors:
Chris Laszlo Case Western Reserve University
Karen Christensen Berkshire Publishing Group
Daniel Fogel Wake Forest University
Gernot Wagner Environmental Defense Fund
Peter Whitehouse Case Western Reserve University

ISBN:9781933782133 Price:$150  First Edition, 1 volume, 502 pages, Published April 2010

The Business of Sustainability is a core resource for policy makers, members of the development community, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives, as well as business and economics students and their professors. It contains rich analysis of how sustainability is being factored into industries across the globe, with enlightening case studies of businesses serving as agents of change. Contributing authors provide a groundbreaking body of research-based knowledge. They explain that the concept of sustainability is being re-framed to be positive about business instead of being tied to the old notion of a trade-off between business and society (that is, if business wins, society must lose), and they explore how economic development can contribute to building our common future.

Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 3/10 :The Law and Politics of Sustainability

Editors:
Klaus Bosselmann University of Auckland
Daniel Fogel Wake Forest University
J.B. Ruhl Vanderbilt University Law School

ISBN:9781933782140 Price:$150  First Edition, 1 volume, 568 pages, Published December 2010

The Law and Politics of Sustainability explores efforts to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. Many articles explain the mechanics of environmental law as well as the concepts that shape sustainable development. Others discuss case studies and rulings that have set precedents, or consider approaches to sustainable development taken by legal systems around the world. Experts and scholars in the field raise provocative questions about the effectiveness of international law versus national law in protecting the environment, and about the effect of current laws on future generations. They analyze the successes and shortcomings of present legal instruments, corporate and public policies, social movements, and conceptual strategies - offering readers a preview of steps we must take to develop laws and policies that will promote genuine sustainability.

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