Approaches to Sustainable Development

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Routledge, 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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Contents

Accounting for Sustainability
21
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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Richard Auty is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Lancaster. Katrina Brown is Lecturer at the School of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow at CSERGE, University of East Anglia.

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