Offering guidelines on the achievement of global sustainable development, this study focuses on the institutional arrangements necessary to cope with the complexity of ecological problems. The authors describe a new form of environmental management which links government and businesses together.

Preface * Part I: Introduction - The Ecology of an Industrial Planet * Sustainable Development and Political Change * Part II: The Western View of Human Kind and Nature - Science and Technology and the Natural World * Western Political Ideas and Sustainable Development * Part III: Global Integration and Local Democracy - The Global Economy: Interdependence, Inequality and the Environment * Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Dilemma of Development * Part IV: Innovative Management for Sustainable Development - Constraints on Integrated Management * Organisational Ecology and Innovative Management * Developing Action-Centred Networks for Environmental Management * Part V: Case Studies In Innovative Management - Groundwork Trusts: Environmental Rehabilitation Through Business-Community Partnerships * The IDEA Programme: Innovations in Development for Environmental Action * Growth Management Through Consensus In California * The Netherlands National Environmental Policy Plan * Conclusions * Notes and References * Index