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Sustainable development at risk : ignoring the past /
Over the past half century, the idea of sustainable development has drastically evolved and rooted itself in the lexicon of international development. But what is it, really? Are development agencies truly committed to long-term sustainable solutions to development issues? Are we learning from our p...
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New Delhi : Ottawa, ON, Canada :
Cambridge University Press ; International Development Research Centre,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Sustainable development: scope and purpose of the text
- Difficulties of definition and concept
- Corporate memory
- Ancient concepts of sustainable development
- Development since World War II
- Food systems analysis
- Industrial biotechnologies
- Ethical, ideological and political issues
- General comment
- 2 Definitions and Concepts
- Defining and determining development
- What is sustainable development?
- Sustainable: static or dynamic?
- Primitive and early human developmentDevelopment out of poverty
- Complexity of international development
- Resource conservation
- Adjusted net savings
- Uncertainties unresolved
- 3 International Development: In the Beginning
- The Atlantic Charter
- The United Nations and its Charter
- The international monetary system
- The UN and its Specialised Agencies
- Liberation from colonialism
- Colonisation of Africa
- Conflict in the Middle East
- International development conferences
- Purposes of international development programmes
- Assessments of international development programmesWorld Bank Development Reports
- Comment on World Bank Development Reports
- UNDP Human Development Reports
- Final observation
- 4 From Pearson to Johannesburg
- The Pearson Commission
- The Brandt Commission
- The Brundtland Commission
- Pearson, Brandt and Brundtland
- International conferences on environment and development
- The UN World Summit on Sustainable Development [WSSD]
- Final observation
- 5 Poverty
- Poverty and development
- Poverty and World Bank Development Reports
- EmpowermentSecurity
- Constraints to trade and hopes for reform
- UNDP Human Development recommendations
- General comment
- 6 Development in Agriculture and Biotechnologies
- Sustainable survival
- Agriculture and biotechnologies
- Evolution of Planet Earth
- Hunting and gathering
- Early hominid diets
- From hunting to settled agriculture
- Demographic, economic and social change: the river valley civilisations
- Roman agriculture
- From empiricism to scientific agriculture
- From alchemy to chemistry
- Taxonomic classification
- MendalClosing comment
- 7 Sustainable Agriculture
- Diverse and divergent concepts
- Other commentaries and recommendations
- Conservation and preservation
- Agricultural resources
- Variations on the sustainable theme
- Chemical fertilisers
- Contentious issues
- International agricultural research: the CGIAR
- Genetic modifications
- GM crops: potential benefits
- Closing comment
- 8 Sustainable Food Security
- Diverse definitions
- Food security, income and poverty
- Strategic food stocks
- Nutritional adequacy