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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... societies and the loss of traditional knowledge and culture ; and the global environmental changes apparent from the populated parts of the world to the most remote ( Turner et al . , 1990 ) are evidence of the unsustainability of ...
... societies and the loss of traditional knowledge and culture ; and the global environmental changes apparent from the populated parts of the world to the most remote ( Turner et al . , 1990 ) are evidence of the unsustainability of ...
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... societies which is very closely related to the resilience of ecological systems ; i.e. the ability of the institutions of human societies to continue functioning in the face of stress and shocks ' . A number of scholars from broadly ...
... societies which is very closely related to the resilience of ecological systems ; i.e. the ability of the institutions of human societies to continue functioning in the face of stress and shocks ' . A number of scholars from broadly ...
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... society . The problem is expressed as : max U ( C , B ) edt subject to : K = F - C - a M = e - d S = R + g The Hamiltonian is given by : K + YM H = U + Yk Ê + Yм M + YS Š , where x is the shadow price of capital , in utils , y the ...
... society . The problem is expressed as : max U ( C , B ) edt subject to : K = F - C - a M = e - d S = R + g The Hamiltonian is given by : K + YM H = U + Yk Ê + Yм M + YS Š , where x is the shadow price of capital , in utils , y the ...
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... society may not lead to development . There are distributional issues to be considered , in other words . Second , not all investment is the same , in the sense that there are both productive and wasteful investments . A key concern ...
... society may not lead to development . There are distributional issues to be considered , in other words . Second , not all investment is the same , in the sense that there are both productive and wasteful investments . A key concern ...
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... societies . One characterization of historical trends in pollution is the Environmental Kuznets Curve , which holds that , in the early stages of industrial development , pollution will increase , but that at a certain mature point ...
... societies . One characterization of historical trends in pollution is the Environmental Kuznets Curve , which holds that , in the early stages of industrial development , pollution will increase , but that at a certain mature point ...
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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