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Constructing sustainable development / Neil E. Harrison.
Lippincott Library HC79.E5 H357 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Neil E., 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Social structure.
- Social values.
- Social justice.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 175 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Through a critique of the economic, technological, political, and ethical theories that are the basis for current policy, this book shows that sustainable development proposals are at least incomplete or impractical and at worst dangerously misleading.
- Contents:
- The Problem of Policy 2
- Policy Narratives 4
- Constructing an Alternative 8
- 2. Scientific Knowledge and Uncertainty 11
- Measuring Sustainability 11
- The Role of Uncertainty 15
- 3. The Efficiency Narrative: Eco-Efficiency Through Markets 19
- An Orthodox View 20
- Markets and Consumption 21
- Exclusion of Natural Goods 23
- Problems with Private Exploitation 25
- Regulating Natural Sinks 27
- Market Mechanics 28
- Markets and Collective Response 29
- Ecological Economics 30
- 4. Organizing a Technological Fix 37
- Technology and Innovation 38
- Understanding Technological Innovation 41
- Structural Inhibitors 43
- Choosing an Ecological Techno-Economic Paradigm 46
- 5. Considering Equity 51
- The Need for Authority 52
- The Possibilities of Politics 54
- Politics as Rational Choice 60
- Discursive Politics 63
- The Ecological Uses of Politics 64
- 6. Sustainability in the International System 67
- Levels of Analysis 68
- Global Structures 70
- Cooperation Between Sovereignties 71
- Opportunities for Cooperation 76
- 7. A Problem of Consciousness 81
- Extending Legal Rights 83
- Relationship Problems 84
- Valuing Nature 87
- Spirit and Nature 92
- Changing Minds 93
- 8. Policy Principles for Sustainable Development 99
- Process and Goals 100
- Complex Adaptive Systems and Policy Principles 103
- Decision Making on Principle 112
- Initial Policy Directions 114.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-163) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791446670
- 0791446689
- OCLC:
- 42863228
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