Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

ISBN-13: 9780415820721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 402 str.

UK) Adams Bill (University of Cambridge

Opis

The book provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development and explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about it. It critiques of the ideas behind them and draws a link between theory and practice by discussing the nature of the environmental degradation and the impacts of development.

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?