Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions

✍ Scribed by Michae Redclift

• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Edition: New edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Sustainable development: the concept......Page 24
Economic models and environmental values......Page 46
Sustainable development: the problem......Page 61
The internationalization of the environment......Page 88
The transformation of the environment......Page 116
Environmental management and social movements......Page 142
The frontiers of sustainability......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 208
Bibliography......Page 214
Index......Page 228