Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption

ISBN-13: 9781853833557 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 196 str.

Michael Redclift

Opis

This text provides an analysis of the effects of the world's consumption patterns on sustainable development. It argues that sustainable development is a normative goal for societies, and one that is bound up with everyday practices and patterns of behaviour.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

List ofFigures

List of Tables

Chapter One: Introduction

Consumption and the Environment

How can we 'Recover Consumption'?

Chapter Two: The Earth Summit

International Environmental Policy: the Road From Stockholm

Counsel of Despair: International Environmental Problems in the 1980s

UNCED: the Road to Rio

The UNCED Deliberations: Conventions and a New Agenda

In the Wake of Rio: International Finance and Political Devolution

Global Environmental Management: a Realist Perspective

From Science to Policy: Environmental Management and the UNCED Process

Making sense of the Environment/Development Debate

Chapter Three: Meeting Environmental Targets

Global Environmental Change

The Laws of Thermodynamics

The Effect of Human Evolution on Natural Systems

Sustainable Development

Sustainability Indicators

Chapter Four: The Global Economy and Consumption

The Hydrocarbon Society and Energy Consumption

The New International Economic Order

Energy Consumption and the Generation of Waste

Recovering Consumption: the Political Economy of Wastes

Chapter Five: Managing Global Resources

European Energy Policy and Global Change

Sustainable Energy Policies for the Brazilian Amazon

Chapter Six: Metabolising Nature

Global Environmental Management

The 'Empty' and 'Full' World System: a Point of Departure

How we Measure Environmental Quality: the Costs of Consumption

Democratic Control of the Environment

The Standard of Living or the Quality of Life?

Global Carbon Budgets

The Social Functions of Sinks

Chapter Seven: Sustainability and Social Commitments

Environmental Discourse and Environmental Management

How we Metabolise Nature

Embodiment and Distanciation

Chapter Eight: Local Environmental Action

Creating Sustainable Employment: LETS Schemes

Beyond Recycling: Recovering our Control over Waste

Farmers' Networks

References

Index

O autorze

Michael Redclift