Approaches to Sustainable DevelopmentRoutledge, 2021 M12 24 - 313 pages A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - "...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations". This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this definition, and to look at the critiques of the economic approach - which have their basis in growing disquiet over the role of the productive normative science driving technological change and economic transformation. The discussion is followed by studies of the application of the criteria of sustainability to rural problems in South Asia, Kenya, Nepal, and Latin America and to urban/industrial problems in Jamaica, Chile and Vietnam. |
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... cent implies that the present value of £ 1 in one hundred years is only 0.45 pence in today's money . A specific example will illustrate how conventional discount rates tend to place a very low value upon long - term future uses . In ...
... cent implies that the present value of £ 1 in one hundred years is only 0.45 pence in today's money . A specific example will illustrate how conventional discount rates tend to place a very low value upon long - term future uses . In ...
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... cent return in order to make investments to reduce soil erosion . This is because such investment is at the cost of present consumption which , because they already subsist on the margin of existence , peasant farmers are reluctant to ...
... cent return in order to make investments to reduce soil erosion . This is because such investment is at the cost of present consumption which , because they already subsist on the margin of existence , peasant farmers are reluctant to ...
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... cent of consumptive use was for cooling, especially in steam-electric generation, and quality was not an issue. Cooling water values are very low. For industrial process use, values are higher. Estimates in the range quoted in Table 3.1 ...
... cent of consumptive use was for cooling, especially in steam-electric generation, and quality was not an issue. Cooling water values are very low. For industrial process use, values are higher. Estimates in the range quoted in Table 3.1 ...
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... cent of the market value of resource extraction and harvest , but sufficiently accurate ( see Hamilton , 1994b ) to serve as a useful indicator . Carbon dioxide emissions are the only pollutants considered in these calculations , with ...
... cent of the market value of resource extraction and harvest , but sufficiently accurate ( see Hamilton , 1994b ) to serve as a useful indicator . Carbon dioxide emissions are the only pollutants considered in these calculations , with ...
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... cent of this was the direct cost of extra pumping , and a further 20 per cent was due to the investment cost of new wells and pipelines . The environmental costs of land subsidence were relatively minor . No data were available on ...
... cent of this was the direct cost of extra pumping , and a further 20 per cent was due to the investment cost of new wells and pipelines . The environmental costs of land subsidence were relatively minor . No data were available on ...
Contents
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Labour Force Analysis as a Means to Understand the Livelihood | 50 |
A Grand Illusion? | 83 |
Recent Trends and Prospects | 103 |
Towards Sustainable Pastoral | 129 |
In Pursuit of Sustainable | 144 |
Global Processes and the Politics of Sustainable Development | 169 |
Chile and Jamaica | 197 |
Pollution Patterns in the Industrialization Process | 220 |
Social Change and Environment | 247 |
Taking Stock | 296 |
Subject Index | 309 |
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