Towards Sustainable Pro-Poor Development? A Critical Assessment of Fair Trade Gold

Solid waste management beliefs and practices in rural households towards sustainable development and pro-environmental citizenship

This study examined the waste management beliefs and practices of selected households in a Philippine rural municipality.  The sample used for this study involved rural families comprising of 332 households, which was drawn from the population using multistage cluster unequal allocation sampling technique. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze data gathered. Findings show that households e...

Trade and Sustainable Development

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Challenges of sustainability even under maximum cooperation 3. Erosion of social development policy in the rich countries and consequent distress 4. Guidance given by the Earth Summit and its rejection by the rich 5. Asymmetries and systemic biases in the trading system against weaker members 6. Rich country civil societies attack and undermine international intergov...

Critical Thinking about Fair Trade Nations: Evaluating Fair Trade’s contribution to economic development

As a logical extension, the group – made up of representatives from Fair Do’s, a local dedicated Fair Trade shop, Tearfund, Oxfam Cymru, CAFOD, Christian Aid and the Co-op Group – developed the idea of pushing Fair Trade networks across Wales to undertaken practices that would allow for the country as a whole to claim the status of the world’s first Fair Trade Nation. Wales was soon joined by c...

Endogenous Growth and Sustainable Development: a Critical Assessment

Risk Assessment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Concept of Sustainable Risk