Product Description

This is the most comprehensive textbook ever written on sustainable development, pilot-tested worldwide. The coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assessment, management and policy; approaches and linkages to poverty reduction; impacts and infrastructure development; economics, consumption, production and market failures; governance; participation; disaster management; international financial institutions; international environmental agreements and the role of civil society.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38677 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
The mixture of framework and discussion makes this book one of the best produced on the subject. The depth and breadth of coverage is amazing. Anyone wanting to find out more about sustainable development must read this book. It needs to be a set text on any course dealing with sustainable development. Overall, a brilliant seminal text -a definite must-buy. --Ecological and Environmental Education

About the Author
Peter P. Rogers is Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering and Professor of City Planning, Harvard University, USA. Kazi F. Jalal is a lecturer at Harvard's Extension School and Chief of the Office of Environment and Social Development of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). John A. Boyd is Principal Sector Specialist on Sustainable Development for the ADB.