Product Description

Providing an up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the issues surrounding the promotion of sustainable development, this unique, internationally focused book combines strong conceptual analyses, with an empirical focus and a wealth of case material.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #96295 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 246 pages

From the Back Cover

Promoting sustainable development opens up debates about our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the North and the South, in the present and into the future.

This concise and accessible text explores the prospects for, and barriers to, the promotion of sustainable development in the high consumption societies of the industrialised world; the Third World and the economies in transition in East and Central Europe. Sustainable development is explored as part of new efforts, albeit tentative, to integrate environmental, economic and (more recently) social considerations into a new development paradigm. Recognising that promoting sustainable development is a quintessentially global task, this valuable book focuses on the authoritative Brundtland formulation of sustainable development and the role of the United Nations Summits in promoting this vision

Drawing on a myriad of global case studies such as Central Africa, India and New Zealand, this engaging book introduces students to the issues involved in the promotion of sustainable development in a theoretically informed and critical way.