Sustainable Development
Susan C. Baker
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Description for Sustainable Development
Paperback. Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts. Num Pages: 470 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, 9 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTF; RNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 742.
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. This concise and accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development. It also investigates the prospect for, and barriers to, the promotion of sustainable development ... Read more
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. This concise and accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development. It also investigates the prospect for, and barriers to, the promotion of sustainable development ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
Condition
New
Weight
756g
Number of Pages
450
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415522922
SKU
V9780415522922
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-9
Reviews for Sustainable Development
The second edition brings scholarly and pedagogic clarity to the complex and contested problematique of sustainable development. Baker offers a analysis of the origins, dynamics, actors, governance dimensions, policy implications and theoretical debates around this concept which as she points out is and will continue to shape local and global politics in the 21st-century. It is written in an accessible ... Read more