Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, Strategies, Local Realities

ISBN-13: 9780415747325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Ulrikke Wethal; Arve Hansen

Opis

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth. Understanding this global shift and its impact on the environment is the paramount contemporary challenge for development-oriented researchers and policy makers alike. This book breaks new ground by combining scholarship on the role of emerging economies with research on sustainable development.

The book investigates how the development strategies of emerging economies challenge traditional development theory and sustainability discourses. With regional introductions and original case studies from South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, it discusses how to conceptualise sustainable development in the global race for economic prosperity. What characterises the development strategies of emerging economies, and what challenges are these posing for global sustainable development? How can emerging economies shed light on the global challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the relationship between socio-economic improvements and environmental degradation?

This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduates in development studies, geography, economics and environmental studies.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  1. Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability Arve Hansen &Ulrikke Wethal  2.The 'Rise of the Rest' and the Revenge of 'Development': The emerging economies and shifts in development theory Benedicte Bull  3. Making Sense of Sustainable Development in a Changing World Desmond McNeill & Harold Wilhite  Part 2: Asia  4. Miracles or Uneven Development? Asia in the contemporary world economy  Pietro Masina  5. Ecological Modernisation and Dilemmas of Sustainable Development in China Hege Merete Knutsen & Xiaoxi Ou  6. Between Peasant Utopia and Neoliberal Dreams: Industrialisation and its discontents in emerging India Kenneth Bo Nielsen  7. Best of Both Worlds? The power and pitfalls of Vietnam's development model Arve Hansen  8. Indonesia: Neoliberal development in the context of decentralised patronage politics  Gyda Marås Sindre  Part 3: Latin America 9. Latin America's Decade of Growth: Progress and challenges for a sustainable development Benedicte Bull  10. Brazil, Land of the Future? Conservative development strategy and the urban challenges Einar Braathen & Yuri Kasahara  11. Agricultural change in Argentina: Impacts of the gene modified soybean revolution Kristi Anne Stølen  12. The Paradoxes of Chilean Economic Development: Growth, inequality, deindustrialisation and sustainability risks Andrés Solimano and Marianne Schaper  13. Mining, Development and Environmental Sustainabilty in Peru Jemima Garcia-Godos & Henrik Wiig  Part 4: Sub-Saharan Africa  14. Between Emerging Economies and Protracted Conflict: Challenges to sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa Morten Bøås  15. Pro-Growth Challenges to Sustainability in South Africa  Dianne Scott, Catherine Sutherland, Vicky Sim and Glen Robbins  16. Searching for Sustainability in Mozambique's Development Strategy  Ulrikke Wethal  17. Botswana's Developmental State: Sustainability under threat? Ian Taylor  18. Ethiopia – Rapid and Green Growth for All? Axel Borchgrevink  Part 5: Conclusion 19. Conclusion Arve Hansen & Ulrikke Wethal

O autorze

Arve Hansen is a Research Fellow in interdisciplinary development studies and geography at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. Ulrikke Wethal is a Research Fellow in development and economic geography at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway.