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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... natural resource 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 ...
... natural resource 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 ...
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... natural resources and human capital, but also on technology and socio-economic structure as well as on the effort expended by future generations themselves. In other words, concern for natural resources is a part only of a much wider ...
... natural resources and human capital, but also on technology and socio-economic structure as well as on the effort expended by future generations themselves. In other words, concern for natural resources is a part only of a much wider ...
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... natural resource systems condition responses to global processes of change . The series is thereby built around two ... resources vary markedly among the various rural areas of sub - Saharan Africa . Similarly , rates of economic growth ...
... natural resource systems condition responses to global processes of change . The series is thereby built around two ... resources vary markedly among the various rural areas of sub - Saharan Africa . Similarly , rates of economic growth ...
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... natural capital ' , but implies that this task lies outside the scope of economics , then the ownership and control of such critical resources is paramount , and the role of the expert or scientist in the process of defining ...
... natural capital ' , but implies that this task lies outside the scope of economics , then the ownership and control of such critical resources is paramount , and the role of the expert or scientist in the process of defining ...
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... natural environment , as well as contrasting ideological notions of ... resource use should be maximized if that is what is required to enhance social welfare ... resources . It usually posits a timetable of mandatory targets in order to ...
... natural environment , as well as contrasting ideological notions of ... resource use should be maximized if that is what is required to enhance social welfare ... resources . It usually posits a timetable of mandatory targets in order to ...
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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