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<p>The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. <em>Green Development</em> provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice.</p> <p>This third edition retains the clear and powerful argument of previous editions, but has been updated to reflect advances in ideas and changes in international policy. Greater attention has been given to political ecology, environmental risk and the environmental impacts of development.</p> <p>This fully revised third edition discusses:</p> <p><br> </p> <ul> <li>the origins of thinking about sustainability and sustainable development and its evolution to the present day</li> <li>the ideas that dominate mainstream sustainable development (ecological modernization, market environmentalism and environmental economics)</li> <li>the nature and diversity of alternative ideas about sustainability that challenge ‘business as usual’ thinking (for example ecosocialism, ecofeminism, deep ecology and political ecology)</li> <li>the dilemmas of sustainability in the context of dryland degradation, d

Author

Adams, W. M. (william Mark) , 1955-

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francs Group

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134158355

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Economics