Sustainability after Rio

• The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Objectives, Outcomes and Corporate Accountability. Developments in Corporate Water Accounting and Accountability. Would A Water Footprint Label Deliver Greater Accountability? A Case Study Examination within the Context of a Book Retailer and Related Parties. A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of UN MDGs and RIO?+?20 on Corporate Social Accountability Practices. Toxic Products and Hazardous Waste: The Global Asbestos Issue. Do CSR Determinants Stimulate Profits: Analysis of Retail Companies in UK. Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Nigerian Mining Industry: Host Communities’ Perspectives. Corporate Accountability in Relation to Human Rights: Have RIOs Done Enough?. Heterarchial Networks for Global Corporations: Emerging Unstructured Complexity in Regulatory Landscape. Lax Privatisation from Lax Governance. Social Responsibility of Statutory Auditors. Introduction: Sustainability Reconsidered. List of Contributors. Copyright page. Sustainability After Rio. Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility. Sustainability After Rio.

Eleven papers assess changes brought about by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Millennium Development Goals.The contributors examine corporate social responsibility practices, corporate water accounting standards, global regulation of asbestos, the positive returns of ethical business practices, and the effects of mining on host communities, privatization of former state enterprises, and the role of women as statutory auditors.