This comprehensive international auditing manual tells you why and how to audit internationally and gives you specific programs for 23 countries. You'll learn the cultural, legal, and practical aspects of successful international auditing and find key contact information for environmental officials in many countries. International Environmental Auditing, written with the help of 42 legal experts from Baker & McKenzie, contains practical environmental auditing resources, including an extensive analysis of international environmental auditing initiatives, programs, and organizations worldwide; analysis of auditing and disclosure obligations and confidentiality issues for 19 countries; a list of 233 international environmental agreements, treaties, and conventions; and requirements and applications for professional auditor organization certification.

Use this reference to fully advise your clients on the generation, collection, and dissemination of information relating to chemicals and chemical-related hazards. You get complete discussion of the three major statutes governing chemical products and raw materials -- with a focus on reporting requirements.

Does enterprise participation in global markets ensure sustainable income growth? Policies have often been designed in the belief that this is true, but competitiveness and participation in international markets may take very different forms, and developing countries do not always benefit. This book presents a series of rich and original field studies from Latin America, conducted by the authors with the same consistent methodological approach, and represents a theory-generating exercise within clusters and economic development literature. The main question addressed is how Latin American small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may participate in global markets in ways that provide for sustainable income growth, the “high road” to competitiveness. In contrast, the “low road” is often typically followed by small firms from developing countries, which often compete by squeezing wages and revenues rather than by increasing productivity, salaries, and profits.