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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... present value and that projects should be chosen in order to yield a higher return than the next best alternative use of scarce capital resources. This implies that those projects (carefully costed to encompass all social costs ...
... present value and that projects should be chosen in order to yield a higher return than the next best alternative use of scarce capital resources. This implies that those projects (carefully costed to encompass all social costs ...
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... presents empirical materials drawn from Asia , Africa and Central and South America , while the authors are drawn from economics , development studies , demography and geography . Rob Potter Rick Auty Introduction 1 An Overview of ...
... presents empirical materials drawn from Asia , Africa and Central and South America , while the authors are drawn from economics , development studies , demography and geography . Rob Potter Rick Auty Introduction 1 An Overview of ...
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... present inequitable distribution of income and wealth at the global scale ; the homogenization of societies and the loss of traditional knowledge and culture ; and the global environmental changes apparent from the populated parts of ...
... present inequitable distribution of income and wealth at the global scale ; the homogenization of societies and the loss of traditional knowledge and culture ; and the global environmental changes apparent from the populated parts of ...
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... present value . Strong sustainability advocates argue that such discounting gives greater weight to the costs of measures to protect the environment ( which typically occur through the short- and medium - term ) than it does to the ...
... present value . Strong sustainability advocates argue that such discounting gives greater weight to the costs of measures to protect the environment ( which typically occur through the short- and medium - term ) than it does to the ...
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... present value and that projects should be chosen in order to yield a higher return than the next best alternative use of scarce capital resources . This implies that those projects ( carefully costed to encompass all social costs ...
... present value and that projects should be chosen in order to yield a higher return than the next best alternative use of scarce capital resources . This implies that those projects ( carefully costed to encompass all social costs ...
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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