The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development

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Such a huge number of books, journals and papers have been devoted to defining, assessing and implementing 'sustainable development' that students and other readers face information overload. Earthscan alone has published hundreds of essays and books on the subject. Now, though, the most authoritative writings have been carefully assessed and collected together in the Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development. The contributions included span five years of the debate, and cover all the principle themes: the history of the concept; the problems in defining it; the issues surrounding it; and national international policies and schemes to implement it. For ease of use, the essays have been split into key subject areas - such as agriculture, population and the commons - and they include practical case studies and examples, together with analyses from a number of different viewpoints from both the North and South. These seminal essays will provide readers with a unique overview of the subject, as well as the long-awaited basic course material for students of environmental studies, economics, geography, politics, planning and the social sciences. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Sustainable Development: An Introduction 1. Biodiversity The Value of Biodiversity Many Marine Mammal Populations Declining The Evolution of International Whaling Law Conservation of Wild Genetic Resources Costa Rica The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity 2. Climate Change and Energy A Target-Based, Least Cost Approach to Climate Stabilization Energy Planning 3. Population “Carrying Capacity”, “Over Population” and Environmental Degradation The Population Debate The Politics of Population Policies Stabilizing Population: The Biggest Challenge 4. Agriculture Regenerating Agriculture: The Agroecology of Low-External Input and Community-Based Development Economic and Political Consequences of the Green Revolution in India Pricing Policy and Sustainability in Indonesia 5. Industrialization and Pollution Restructuring Industry for Sustainable Development Legal Rights … and Wrongs: Internationalizing Bhopal Run into the Wind Environmental Problems Agenda 21 6. Urbanization and Health Urban Growth as a Problem Human Settlements: Women’s Environment of Poverty The Search for Shelter The Scale of the Problem 7. The Commons The Ambivalence of Property The Commons: Where the Community has Authority Defending the Global Commons Improving Livestock Raising The Future of Africa’s Drylands 8. Environmental Security and Environmental Institutions Enforcing Environmental Security Institutions for Environmental Security Greening Bretton Woods Sustainable Development: The Political and Institutional Challenge 9. Empowerment Planning the Family: A Woman’s Choice Women’s Mobilization in Human Settlements: The Case of Barrio lndio Guayas What Next? Organizing for Change: People Power and the Role of Institutions 10. Environmental Economics The Steady-State Economy: Alternatives to Growthmama Green Taxes Global Warming: The Economics of Tradable Permits Acronym and Abbreviations Sources of Information Index