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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... role. Moreover, strong sustainability options also merit careful analysis and monitoring because the more orthodox assumptions about natural resource substitution and the pollution absorptive capacity of the environmental sinks may ...
... role. Moreover, strong sustainability options also merit careful analysis and monitoring because the more orthodox assumptions about natural resource substitution and the pollution absorptive capacity of the environmental sinks may ...
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... role of economic development in bringing about undesirable social as well as environmental consequences . The present inequitable distribution of income and wealth at the global scale ; the homogenization of societies and the loss of ...
... role of economic development in bringing about undesirable social as well as environmental consequences . The present inequitable distribution of income and wealth at the global scale ; the homogenization of societies and the loss of ...
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... role of the expert or scientist in the process of defining ' criticality ' is to the fore ( see , for example , Owens , 1994 ) . This questioning of the basis of sustainable economic development has resonance in the growing disquiet ...
... role of the expert or scientist in the process of defining ' criticality ' is to the fore ( see , for example , Owens , 1994 ) . This questioning of the basis of sustainable economic development has resonance in the growing disquiet ...
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... role which markets can play , others point to the dubious assumptions of consumer sovereignty when , in the real world , the actors lack perfect information . Moreover , demand can clearly be manipulated to create ' necessities ' and ...
... role which markets can play , others point to the dubious assumptions of consumer sovereignty when , in the real world , the actors lack perfect information . Moreover , demand can clearly be manipulated to create ' necessities ' and ...
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... environmental issues into development economics ( Mikesell , 1992 ) and may become redundant when that has been achieved , weak sustainability plays a useful transitional role . Moreover , 10 Richard M. Auty and Katrina Brown.
... environmental issues into development economics ( Mikesell , 1992 ) and may become redundant when that has been achieved , weak sustainability plays a useful transitional role . Moreover , 10 Richard M. Auty and Katrina Brown.
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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