The crisis in agricultural commodities is closely linked to issues of poverty and environmental degradation.

Dealing with entrenched rural poverty and major impacts from agriculture on ecosystem viability requires a new look at how commodity markets succeed or fail.

There is a need for better understanding of how commodity markets work and how policy makers and businesses can intervene to introduce fairness, justice and sustainability into these markets. This challenging context provides the background for this book, which brings together an edited selection of papers prepared for two strategic dialogues on commodities, trade and sustainable development, jointly convened by IIED and the ICTSD.

SBN: 1843695731, 245 pages $36 from

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Capitalism As If The World Matters,
Jonathon Porritt
Publication date November 2005.

• Tackles the most pressing problem of our time – how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity and ecological integrity
• Destined to be one of the most important business, economics and politics books of the year
• Jonathon Porritt, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is a leading influence on business and industry, the UK Government’s foremost adviser on sustainable development and a well-known author, broadcaster and visionary
  

As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is beginning to question the very structure of the economy that has provided so much wealth, and As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem inequity, across the world.

In this fresh, politically charged analysis, Jonathon Porritt wades in on the most pressing question of the 21st century – can capitalism, as the only real economic game in town, be retooled to deliver a sustainable future?

Porritt argues that indeed it can and it must as he lays out the framework for a new ‘sustainable capitalism’ that cuts across the political divide and promises a prosperous future of wealth, equity and ecosystem integrity.

All royalties from the sales of Capitalism As If The World Matters are being paid to Forum for the Future to support its ongoing work

Hardback £18.99 1844071928.

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Environment and Health
Published by: EEA (European Environment Agency) OPOCE (Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Publish date: 04/01/2006 .

Public concerns, evidence from research and increasing scientific knowledge are all driving widespread discussions on environment and health problems. The issue of environment and health is characterised by multi-causality with different strengths of association.

This means that the links between exposures and their health consequences depend on the environmental pollutants and diseases being considered, but are also influenced by factors such as genetic constitution, age, nutrition and lifestyle, and socioeconomic factors such as poverty and level of education.

This report was prepared in cooperation between the European Environment Agency and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. The project manager at EEA was Ingvar Andersson with Peter P at JRC as the main author.

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http://reports.eea.eu.int/eea_report_2005_10/en/tab_order_RLR

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