The Illusion of Progress: Unsustainable Development in International Law and Policy

ISBN-13: 9781853837579 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 256 str.

Alexander Gillespie

Opis

Is sustainable development a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law.

Spis treści

Introduction * Development * Growth * Markets * Trade * Debt * Aid * Peace * Sovereignty * Conclusion * Notes and References * Index

O autorze

Alexander Gillespie is senior lecturer in International law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand and author of Environmental Law, Policy and Ethics.