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The Illusion of Progress: Unsustainable Development in International Law and Policy

By Alexander Gillespie

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
1853837571, 9781853837579
Open Library ID
OL8981510M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1095476 bytes)
Pages
256\257
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid, debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are leading down quite a different path to that intended by sustainability.

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