ISCTE - Institute University Lisbon (www.iscte.pt), in collaboration with CPADA – The Portuguese Confederation for the Environment Protection Associations (www.cpada.pt), is organising a global conference on the theme of Corporate Governance, Innovation and Environmental and Social Responsibility – GIRA© 2010. The global conference aims to convene a broad range of academic researchers, industrialists, policy makers, business leaders, other practitioners and civil society representatives to review the state of policy and practice in the broad field of protection of the environment, sustainable development and the economy, corporate ethics and social responsibility, as we look forward into a potentially turbulent 21st Century.

The scope of the Redclift-Woodgate volume is vast and, overall, the Handbook amounts to an almost encyclopaedic reference text for scholars of environmental questions across the social sciences, be they in sociology, geography, political science or wherever.