The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781853832161 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str.

John Kirkby; Phil O'Keefe; Lloyd Timberlake

Opis

Features the contributions that cover the following principle themes: the history of sustainable development; the problems in defining the concept; the issues surrounding it; and, national international policies and schemes to implement it.

Spis treści

From Brundtland to Rio ? Food and Agriculture ? Population ? Urbanization ? Industrialization ? Energy ? Economics ? Biodiversity ? The Commons ? Institutions ? International Relations.

O autorze

JOHN KIRKBY is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle, and has worked on development issues in the South for a number of years.

PHIL O'KEEFE is a Reader of Environmental Management at the University of Northumbria. He has extensive experience of running development projects, and has published numerous books and articles on the subject.

LLOYD TIMBERLAKE was the editorial advisor to WCED in the preparation of Our Common Future. He has worked in over 50 countries, and his prize-winning books include Africa in Crisis (1985), Only One Earth (1987), and When the Bough Breaks (1990).