The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa.

This volume is both opportune and important. The issue of the links between globalization, agriculture and development need urgently to be emphasised in a world economy transfixed by issues of energy, industry and finance, the problems of the triad states, and the rise of the BRICs. The chapters in this volume begin this task through studies of agricultural change in Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the ASEAN nations, India and China. They show the uneven impacts of liberalization, contracting, and modernization that bring social change in their wake.

The book reveals, for the first time, the origins, growth and complex role of the OECD as it celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, showing how it has adapted – for the most part successfully – to the changing needs of its members, both large and small.

In the current era of globalisation, national governments are increasingly exposed to international influences that present new constraints and opportunities for domestic environmental policies.

This timely book examines the role of environmental principles in changing international environmental law and politics, and argues for the importance of integrating environmental principles in the global governance of the environment.

The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society.

With the global expansion of urbanization there is a need to ensure that cities develop in a way that allows all residents to benefit from urban life. This volume contains a collection of classic and more recent papers that provide insight into the problems encountered in urbanization and the ways in which planning has evolved to meet the resultant challenges.

This international compendium of national demographic statistics is designed to supply basic statistical data on 230 countries or areas for such users as demographers, economists, public-health workers and sociologists. The Demographic Yearbook 2006 is the fifty-eighth in a series published by the United Nations. It contains general tables including a world summary of selected demographic statistics, statistics on the size, distribution and trends in national population, natality, foetal, infant, maternal and general mortality as well as nuptiality and divorce.

UNEP's Finance Initiatives Roundtable Meeting is taking place at a critical time in the process to set the agenda for this landmark earth summit. Furthermore, with the plan to focus discussions on ‘Globalisation and Sustainable Development', the UNEP Finance Initiatives are tackling a subject that will sit at the very heart of the 2002 deliberations - Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer, Spokesman of the Group Board of Deutsche Bank AG The 2000 Annual UNEP Finance Initiatives Roundtable:Globalization and Sustainable Development - Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Sector brought together innovative perspectives on finance and sustainable development from over 250 senior representatives in the financial services, business, government, non-government and international government sectors.