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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... effective markets (by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for example) or practical command and control measures. But the idea of market failure is also at the heart of weak sustainability ...
... effective markets (by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for example) or practical command and control measures. But the idea of market failure is also at the heart of weak sustainability ...
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... effectively deploy remarkably high rates of discount . For example , Indian peasant farmers may seek a 30 to 40 per cent return in order to make investments to reduce soil erosion . This is because such investment is at the cost of ...
... effectively deploy remarkably high rates of discount . For example , Indian peasant farmers may seek a 30 to 40 per cent return in order to make investments to reduce soil erosion . This is because such investment is at the cost of ...
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... effectively capital is used ( i.e. the higher its social return ) the faster the improvement in welfare and the greater the financial resources available to future generations . This in turn enhances the capacity of future generations ...
... effectively capital is used ( i.e. the higher its social return ) the faster the improvement in welfare and the greater the financial resources available to future generations . This in turn enhances the capacity of future generations ...
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... effective markets ( by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for example ) or practical command and control measures . But the idea of market failure is also at the heart of weak sustainability ...
... effective markets ( by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for example ) or practical command and control measures . But the idea of market failure is also at the heart of weak sustainability ...
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... effective environmental policy . The chapter notes the varying capacity of each region to absorb mine pollutants and discusses the practical problems of assigning monetary values to natural capital depletion . In Chapter 11 , Richard ...
... effective environmental policy . The chapter notes the varying capacity of each region to absorb mine pollutants and discusses the practical problems of assigning monetary values to natural capital depletion . In Chapter 11 , Richard ...
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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