Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions / Edition 1

by Michael Redclift

Overview

Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415050852
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/18/1987
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Sustainable development: the concept, 3 Economic models and environmental values, 4 Sustainable development: the problem, 5 The internationalization of the environment, 6 The transformation of the environment, 7 Environmental management and social movements, 8 The frontiers of sustainability, 9 Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Editorial Reviews

'This is an important contribution to a crucial debate.' - World Development

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