Environmental policies and initiatives have had a significant impact on businesses and employment practices across Europe. The Environment, Employment and Sustainable Development is a wide-ranging collection featuring contributions by academics and practitioners from countries including the UK, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Ireland. Subjects covered include:

* the effects of EU environmental directives, programmes and legislation and global conventions and agreements

* assessment of environmental training, education and qualifications across Europe

* national and international case studies

* the commercial logic for businesses in 'going green'

* examination of the growth in the public and private sector of career opportunities for those with environmental expertise.