Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

ISBN-13: 9780415820714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 402 str.

UK) Bill Adams (University of Cambridge

Opis

This text provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in theory and practice. It the concept of sustainability lies at the heart of debates about poverty, development and the environment. In print continuously since 1990, Green Development has won a place as a leading account of sustainable development. While authoritative, it is also readable, and it has been widely used by generations of undergraduate and graduate students. Environmentalism and development are two of the big ideas of the twentieth century. Both are based on strong moral agendas, but they often conflict with each other, since in practice, development often involves unsustainable resource use and environmental change associated with industrialisation and economic growth. The idea of sustainable development implies that developmental and environmental goals can be achieved together. The book explores how far this is the case, and the tensions between these goals. It also tracks how thinking about environment and development has evolved, and the debates within it. The fourth edition of Green Development is fully revised, and up to date. It describes developments in international debates (e.g. the `Rio+20' meeting in 2012), as well as novel theoretical ideas used to frame issues of environment and development (e.g. political ecology, neoliberalism, ecosystem services, resilience, uncertainty and the Anthropocene).

Spis treści

1. The dilemma of sustainability  2. The roots of sustainable development  3. Mainstream sustainable development  4. Sustainability and Natural Capital  5. Neoliberalism and the Green Economy  6. Corporations and sustainability  7. Sustainability and Degrowth  8. The political forest  9. Desertification  10. Famine, Food and Farming  11. The Political Ecology of Biodiversity  12. Engineering Development  13. Green development: reformism or radicalism?