Jacob Park

The ecology of the new economy : sustainable transformation of global information, communications and electronics industries

Foreword Jonathan Lash, President, World Resources Institute Introduction. Atom to bits: e-sustainability in the global economy Jacob Park, University of Maryland, USA, and Nigel Roome, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Part I: Sustainability challenges and implications of a global information economy 1. Sustainable business strategies in the Internet economy Klaus Fichter, Borderstep: Institution for Innovation and Sustainability, Germany 2. E-logistics and the natural environment Joseph Sarkis, Clark University, USA, Laura Meade, University of Dallas, USA, and Srinivas Talluri, Michigan State University, USA 3. Greening the digitised supply net Michael Totten, Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, Conservation International, USA 4. Dot.com ethics: e-business and sustainability James Wilsdon, Demos, UK 5. Practising corporate citizenship in a global information economy Duane Windsor, Rice University, USA 6. The Internet and sustainability reporting: improving communication with stakeholders William B. Weil and Barbara Winter-Watson, Environmental Resources Management, USA Part II: E-business strategies for a sustainable world 7. Is e-commerce sustainable? Lessons from Webvan Chris Galea, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Steve Walton, Emory University, USA 8. Information technology, sustainable development and developing nations James R. Sheats, Hewlett-Packard Co., USA 9. The environmental impact of the new economy: Deutsche Telekom, telecommunications services and the sustainable future Markus Reichling and Tim Otto, Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany 10. Environmental impacts of telecommunications services: two life-cycle analysis studies Manfred Zurkirch, Swisscom Ltd, Switzerland, and Inge Reichart, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research 11. Exploring the global-local axis: telecommunications and environmental sustainability in Japan Brendan Barrett, United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan, and Ichiro Yamada, NTT Lifestyle and Environmental Technology Laboratories, Japan 12. Product-oriented environmental management: the case of Xerox Europe Frank de Bakker, Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands, and David Foley, Xerox Europe, UK Part III: Old-economy concerns in a new-economy world 13. Information and communications technologies: boon or bane to sustainable development? Josephine Chinying Lang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 14. Information and communications technologies and business travel: environmental possibilities, problems and implications Peter Arnfalk, Lund University, Sweden 15. How fabulous fablessness? Environmental challenges of economic restructuring in the semiconductor industry Jan Mazurek, Progressive Policy Institute, USA 16. Micropower: electrifying the digital economy Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute, USA 17. Extended producer responsibility and the European electronics industry Lassi Linnanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 18. Sustainable trade in electronics: the case of the Indian components sector Mohammad Saqib, Yashika Singh and Ritu Kumar, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, India Bibliography

Ecological stewardship in Japanese firms

Abstract As pressure develops for foreign multinationals to follow the lead of U.S. companies by providing greater accountability on environmental performance and the development of environmental management systems; author Jacob Park brings CES readers a rare insight into the nature of Japanese environmental strategy. With examples from NECs “green innovation” plan, Mr. Park reveals the strategic initiatives Japanese companies institute to address their own unique set of internal and external pressures.

Globalization after Seattle

The WTOs discouraging summit in Seattle is another reminder that “soft power” and effective cooperation are critical for successful U.S. foreign policy.

Global Threats and Opportunities

There have been many changes in the way the international community has examined the issues of economic growth, human development, and environmental protection during the past 25 years. When the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm in 1972, there were sharp, often acrimonious conflicts in the general perception of industrialized countries versus developing countries. The issues were diverse, but by and large, industrialized countries focused on the environmental threat posed by economic growth and industrial pollution, while developing countries viewed poverty or the absence of economic growth as a bigger threat to their societal welfare than environmental problems. Natural resources, including forests, became the focus of this great divide in the perspective between the industrialized and developing worlds.

Global governance, institutions, and the tragedy of the commons

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The other Asian crisis

22.50, ISBN 0–262–74020–6 The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice, David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala and Eugene B. Skolnikoff (eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998, 686 pp., paper,

China's Environmental Crisis: An Enquiry into the Limits of National Development.

27.50, ISBN 0–262–72028–0

Managing Globalization for Sustainability in the 21st Century

The attention lavished on the Asian financial crisis is warranted, but is helping to obscure another, and ultimately more threatening, danger: a regional ecological disaster.

Unbundling Globalization: Agent of Policy Convergence?

Race relations in the United States have long been volatile - marked on the one hand by distrust and violence, but tempered on the other by periods of conciliation, integration and relative harmony. This path-breaking blend of history, sociology, political science and economics argues that the key factor determining the quality of race relations is economic: When economic equality spreads so do social and political equality. Conversely, economic downturns and widening income disparities promote political inequality, polarizing blacks and whites. To support this provocative thesis the author examines key events and eras in American history since the Reconstruction - particularly the black migration and the New Deal policies of the interwar years, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and the rise and decline of affirmative action in the late twentieth century. He also analyzes the racial policies and politics of the major political parties and shows how they played the race card to win support.