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A Survey of sustainable development : social and economic dimensions /
Summaries of essays on sustainable human and economic development. Topics include: Population and the demographic transition; Agriculture and renewal resources; Energy and materials use; Globalization and corporate responsibility; Local and national strategies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Frontier issues in economic thought ;
v. 6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Natural capital and sustainable development / Robert Costanza and Herman E. Daly
- Environmental economics, ecological economics, and the concept of sustainable development / Giuseppe Munda
- On the problem of achieving efficiency and equity, intergenerationally / Talbot Page
- Economics and "sustainability": balancing trade-offs and imperatives / Michael A. Toman
- From political economy to politicalecology / Juan Martinez-Alier
- Green accounting and economic policy / Salah El Serafy
- Are we saving enough for the future? / Kirk Hamilton and Michael Clemens
- Progress on the environmental Kuznets curve? / David I. Stern
- The human development paradigm / Mahbub ul Haq
- Sustainable livelihoods: the poor's reconciliation of environment and development / Robert Chambers
- Market, citizenship, and social exclusion / Charles Gore
- Gendered poverty and well-being / Shahra Razavi.
- Government action, social capital, and development: reviewing the evidence on synergy / Peter Evans
- Good government in the Tropics / Judith Tendler
- View from the periphery: encountering development / Philip W. Porter and Eric S. Sheppard
- Global ecology and the shadow of development / Wolfgang Sachs
- Biodiversity: a third world perspective / Vandana Shiva
- Global warming in an unequal world: a case of environmental colonialism / Anni Agarwal and Sunita Narain
- Lifestyle is the problem / A. Atiq Rahman
- Enclosing the global commons: Global environmental negotiations in a North-south conflictual approach / Alain Lipietz
- Government, population, and poverty: a win-win tale / Nancy Birdsall
- An ecologist view of the Malthusian conflict / C.S. Holling
- Accelerated resource degradation by agriculture in developing countries?: the role of population change and responses to it / Michael Lipton.
- People and environment: what is the relationship between exploitation of natural resources and population growth in the South? / Sara J. Scherr
- Population and urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India's megacities / Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
- Mexico City: our common future? / Priscilla Connolly
- Reinventing cities for people and the planet / Molly O'Meara Sheehan
- Food security and sustainable use of natural resources: a 2020 vision / Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
- Sustainable agriculture / Gordon Conway
- Environmental risks posed by Transgenic crops / Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellen
- Population extinction and saving biodiversity / Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily
- Rocking the boat: conserving fisheries and protecting jobs / Anne Platt McGinn
- The world's forests: problems and potentials / Norman Myers.
- Materialization and dematerialization: measures and trends / Iddo K. Wenick, Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind, and Jess H. Ausubel
- Material use and sustainable affluence / Frank Ackerman
- Balancing China's energy, economic, and environmental goals / John M. Byrne, Bo Shen, and Xiuguo Li
- Environmental quality, energy efficiency, and renewable energy / Peter Fox-Penner
- The costs of climate protection: a guide for the perplexed / Robert Repetto and Duncan Austin
- Equity and discounting in climate-change decisions / Robert C. Lind and Richard E. Schuler
- Globalization: threat or salvation? / Paul Streeten
- From adjustment to sustainable development: the obstacle of free trade / Herman E. Daly
- Ecological distribution, agricultural trade liberalization, and in situ genetic diversity / James K. Boyce
- Multinational corporations and the Neo-liberal regime / James R. Crotty, Gerald Epstein, and Patricia Kelly.
- Foreign investment, globalization, and environment / Daniel C. Esty and Bradford S. Gentry
- Globalization and social integration / Dharam Ghai and Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara
- Reconciling economic reform and sustainable human development: social consequences of Neo-liberalism / Lance Taylor and Ute Pieper
- Impacts of structural adjustment on the sustainability of developing countries / David Reed
- The corporate accountability movement: lessons and opportunities / Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
- Socially responsible investing: doing good while doing well / Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg, and Amy L. Domini
- Corporate social responsibility / George A. Steiner and John F. Steiner
- Toward a new conception of the environment-competitiveness relationship / Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde
- Civil associations and toward a global civil economy / Severyn T. Bruyn.
- Sustainability and the accountable corporation / Allen L. White
- A theory of Government intervention in late industrialization / Alice H. Amsden
- An idea whose time has come / M. Jeff Hamond, Stephen J. DeCanio, Peggy Duxbury, Alan H. Sanstad, and Christopher H. Stinson
- From class struggle to class compromise: redistribution and growth in a South Indian State / Patrick Heller
- New strategies for rural sustainable development: Popular participation, food self-sufficiency, and environmental regeneration / David Barkin
- African development that works / Peter G. Veit, Adolfo Mascarenhas, and Okyeante Ampadu-Agyei
- Challenges to community-based sustainable development / Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, and Ian Scoones
- What is micro-enterprise development for women? Widening the agenda / Linda Mayoux.
- Alternatives to the International Monetary Fund / Robert S. Browne
- The World Bank and poverty / Carlos A. Heredia
- Assessing the the impact of NGO advocacy campaigns on World Bank projects and policies / Jonathan Fox and David Brown
- Coping with ecological globalization / Hilary French
- The United Nations environment programme and the United Nations development programme / Alexandre Timoshenko and Mark Berman
- Conflicts of global ecology: environmental activism in period of global reach / Vanadan Shiva.