Our Common Journey: A Pioneering Approach to Cooperative Environmental Management, authored by Paul De Jongh (project leader) and Sean Captain, is written like a hiker’s journal: it is a step-by-step insider account of how the very successful Dutch National Environmental Policy Plan was built by pulling together government, business, citizens, and activists to negotiate long-term deals on policy.
Comparing policy-making to a hike, they learned “when to hit the trail and how much ground we could cover in a day. The trick is to decide on the absolute essentials and have the courage to pack nothing else… A little extra baggage is not a problem for a day hike; but it can become an excessive burden on a long trip. The ad hoc phase of policy was something akin to a day hike. Devising quick responses to individual problems, we only saw a small part of the trail ahead and didn’t worry about what was over the next hill.” When they took a more strategic, long term approach, “the weight of our many ad hoc policy tools became noticeable. To lighten the load, we had to share our [hiking] equipment by integrating our work with other departments. [sorry this link is no longer available]
In UpSizing: The Road to Zero Emissions, Gunter Pauli, founder of the Zero Emissions Research Initiative (ZERI), introduces the reader to a world where materials once thought worthless are supporting new products, new processes and new wealth as industries that were previously considered unrelated cluster together. He shows how implementing this concept can radically reduce pollution and waste and significantly contribute to income generation and jobs for the rural poor in less developed countries.
http://www.zeri.org
Greenleaf Publishing has released two edited case books. The first, Case Studies in Environmental Management in Central and Eastern Europe presents best-practice examples of how 14 companies, large and small, in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are integrating environmental considerations into day-to-day operations.
The second, Growing Pains: Environmental Management in Developing Countries examines the role that corporations, national and international organisations
play in sustainable development. After almost 50 years of failed panacea-oriented economic development policy transfer from the North to the South, the editors highlight
individual approaches that work. The book is divided into five themes: globalisation; the role of business; a focus on national strategies; trade and the environment; and
the organisational and structural challenges of sustainable development. http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com
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