Susan Baker (Cardiff University)

Sustainable Development

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This concise and accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development. It also investigates the prospect for and barriers to the promotion of sustainable development in the high consumption societies of the industrialised world, including the USA and the EU, the Third World and the economies of transition in East and Central Europe. The book considers the global impact of China's industrial boom as well as how Chinese investments are shaping the prospects for sustainable development on the African continent. This global coverage is balanced by investigating how local action, ranging from the transition towns movement in the UK to the Green Belt movement in Kenya, can contribute to the pursuit of sustainable development.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780415522922
• ISBN-10: 0415522927
• Artikelnr.: 36142354

Autorenporträt

Susan Baker

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Exploration of
Sustainable Development 2. The Concept of Sustainable Development 3. The
Governance of Sustainable Development 4. Sustainable Production and
Sustainable Consumption Part 2: International Engagement with Sustainable
Development 5. Global Governance and UN Environment Summits 6. Key Global
Concerns: Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss 7. The Local Level: LA21,
Societal Engagement and Public Participation Part 3: The Promotion of
Sustainable Development in Different Social, Political and Economic
Contexts 8. High Consumption Societies: The Responsibilities of the
European Union 9. Challenges in the Third World 10. Changing Times - The
Countries in Transition in Eastern Europe 11. Conclusion: The Promotion of
Sustainable Development: What Has Been Achieved