NGO accountability and sustainability issues in the changing global environment

This article, based on a plenary lecture given at the First International Conference on Sustainable Management of Public and Not for Profit Organizations held at the University of Bologna, Forli Campus, Italy in July 2009, provides an overview of issues in non-governmental organization (NGO) account-ability that are of particular relevance in the current changing global context - in particular, a context combining economic slow-down and global warming. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.