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Sustainable development
Promoting sustainable development opens up debates about our relationship with
the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character
of development, both in the North and the South, in the present and into the future.
This concise and accessible text explores the prospects for and barriers to the
promotion of sustainable development in the high-consumption societies of the
industrialized world, the Third World and the economies in transition in East and
Central Europe. Sustainable development is explored as part of new efforts, albeit
tentative, to integrate environmental, economic and (more recently) social
considerations into a new development paradigm. Recognizing that promoting
sustainable development is a quintessentially global task, this valuable book
focuses on the authoritative Brundtland formulation of sustainable development
and the role of the United Nations Summits in promoting this vision.
Drawing on a myriad of global case studies such as Central Africa, India and New
Zealand, this engaging book introduces students to the issues involved in the
promotion of sustainable development in a theoretically informed and critical way.
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