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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... consumption of the richer nations is excessive. It assumes that transfers (subsidies) from rich nations to poor ones will simultaneously confer three important benefits. First, it will reduce rich-country resource use. Second, it will ...
... consumption of the richer nations is excessive. It assumes that transfers (subsidies) from rich nations to poor ones will simultaneously confer three important benefits. First, it will reduce rich-country resource use. Second, it will ...
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... consumption, equity of income distribution, individual security and political freedom. He adds that their attainment depends not only on the legacy of produced (manmade) capital, natural resources and human capital, but also on ...
... consumption, equity of income distribution, individual security and political freedom. He adds that their attainment depends not only on the legacy of produced (manmade) capital, natural resources and human capital, but also on ...
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... consumption and associated aspirations are frequently converging on what might be described as a global norm . However , such patterns of consumption are likely to be Foreword XV.
... consumption and associated aspirations are frequently converging on what might be described as a global norm . However , such patterns of consumption are likely to be Foreword XV.
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Richard M. Auty, Katrina Brown. However , such patterns of consumption are likely to be found to be strongly differentiated when they are examined in different groups and areas at the local scale . Environmental change is strongly ...
Richard M. Auty, Katrina Brown. However , such patterns of consumption are likely to be found to be strongly differentiated when they are examined in different groups and areas at the local scale . Environmental change is strongly ...
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... consumption . In extreme cases the advocates of this latter view assert that the environment possesses the right to existence , irrespective of the dictates of human welfare considerations ( O'Riordan , 1988 ) . In between these ...
... consumption . In extreme cases the advocates of this latter view assert that the environment possesses the right to existence , irrespective of the dictates of human welfare considerations ( O'Riordan , 1988 ) . In between these ...
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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