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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... environmental degradation in poor countries. The weak sustainability approach adopts a more pragmatic stance towards natural resource use and looks to economic growth rather than income transfers to equalize wealth. A central objective ...
... environmental degradation in poor countries. The weak sustainability approach adopts a more pragmatic stance towards natural resource use and looks to economic growth rather than income transfers to equalize wealth. A central objective ...
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... environmental problems can be usefully conceptualized as market failures which require for their correction either the recreation of effective markets (by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for ...
... environmental problems can be usefully conceptualized as market failures which require for their correction either the recreation of effective markets (by valuing environmental services through contingent valuation techniques for ...
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... environmental among them . At the same time , we are aware of the need to achieve balance with respect to the various regions of the Third World that are covered by volumes in the series , not least because of the striking heterogeneity ...
... environmental among them . At the same time , we are aware of the need to achieve balance with respect to the various regions of the Third World that are covered by volumes in the series , not least because of the striking heterogeneity ...
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... Environmental change is strongly affected by the globalization of development , whether through the clearance and destruction of rainforests , the occurrence of industrial accidents , the despoliation of attractive environments ...
... Environmental change is strongly affected by the globalization of development , whether through the clearance and destruction of rainforests , the occurrence of industrial accidents , the despoliation of attractive environments ...
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... environmental and resource accounting (ERA). Working Paper for EDF Meeting, Oregon. Nordhaus, W.D. (1992) Is growth sustainable? reflections on the concept of sustainable growth. Mimeo. Paper prepared for the International Economic ...
... environmental and resource accounting (ERA). Working Paper for EDF Meeting, Oregon. Nordhaus, W.D. (1992) Is growth sustainable? reflections on the concept of sustainable growth. Mimeo. Paper prepared for the International Economic ...
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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