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The sustainable development paradox : urban political economy in the United States and Europe / edited by Rob Krueger, David Gibbs.
Lippincott Library HC110.E5 S875 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development--United States.
- Sustainable development.
- Regional planning--Environmental aspects.
- United States.
- Sustainable development--Europe.
- Environmental policy--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--Europe.
- Europe.
- Regional planning--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Regional planning.
- Regional planning--Environmental aspects--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Guilford Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Sustainability--with its promise of economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental integrity--is hardly a controversial goal. Yet scholars have generally overlooked the ways that policies aimed at promoting "sustainability" at local, national, and global scales have been shaped and constrained by capitalist social relations. This thought-provoking book reexamines sustainability conceptually and as it actually exists on the ground, with a particular focus on Western European and North American urban contexts. Topics include critical theoretical engagements with the concept of sustainability; how sustainability projects map onto contemporary urban politics and social justice movements; the spatial politics of conservation planning and resource use; and what progressive sustainability practices in the context of neoliberalism might look like.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Problematizing the Politics of Sustainability / Rob Krueger, David Gibbs 1
- 1 Impossible "Sustainability" and the Postpolitical Condition / Erik Swyngedouw 13
- 2 Sustaining Modernity, Modernizing Nature: The Environmental Crisis and the Survival of Capitalism / Roger Keil 41
- 3 Microgeographies and Microruptures: The Politics of Gender in the Theory and Practice of Sustainability / Susan Buckingham 66
- 4 Containing the Contradictions of Rapid Development?: New Economy Spaces and Sustainable Urban Development / David Gibbs, Rob Krueger 95
- 5 Greening the Entrepreneurial City?: Looking for Spaces of Sustainability Politics in the Competitive City / Andrew E. G. Jonas, Aidan While 123
- 6 Integrating Sustainabilities in a Context of Economic, Social, and Urban Change: The Case of Public Spaces in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona / Marc Pares, David Sauri 160
- 7 Political Modernization and the Weakening of Sustainable Development in Britain / Anna Batchelor, Alan Patterson 192
- 8 Spatial Policy, Sustainability, and State Restructuring: A Reassessment of Sustainable Community Building in England / Mike Raco 214
- 9 The Spatial Politics of Conservation Planning / James P. Evans 238
- 10 The Imperial Valley of California: Sustainability, Water, Agriculture, and Urban Growth / Stephanie Pincetl, Basil Katz 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781593854980
- 1593854986
- 9781593854997
- 1593854994
- OCLC:
- 134992567
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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