Sustainable Development
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Author(s): S. Baker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 041528211X
Format: softback
245pp
Price: £19.50
Review Date: 23 February 2006
Review: This text looks at the prospects for and barriers to the promotion of sustainable development in the high-consumption societies of the industrialized world, the Third World, and the economies in transition in East and central Europe. Sustainable development is regarded as part of the effort to integrate environmental, economic and social sustainable development into a new development paradigm. This book focuses on the Brundtland formulation (which makes a link between the fulfilment of the needs of the world’s poor and the reduction in the wants of the world’s rich) on sustainable development and the role of the United Nations Summits in promoting this vision. Case studies from Central Africa, India and New Zealand are included.