Green development : environment and sustainability in a developing world / W.M. Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, W. M. (William Mark), 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Developing countries.

Sustainable development.

Green movement.

Developing countries.

Green movement--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xxv, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Edition:

Fourth Edition.

Other Title:

Environment and sustainability in a developing world

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"In print continuously since 1990, Green Development has won a place as a leading account of sustainable development used by generations of undergraduate and graduate students. This authoritative and readable text provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in theory and practice. The fourth edition of Green Development is fully revised, and up to date. It offers clear insights into the challenges of environmental sustain- ability, and social and economic development. The book has proved its value to generations of students as an authoritative, thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The dilemma of sustainability

The roots of sustainable development

Making mainstream sustainable development

Sustainability and natural capital

Neoliberalism and the green economy

Corporations and sustainability

Sustainability and degrowth

The political forest

Desertification

Famine, food and farming

The political ecology of biodiversity

Engineering development

Green development: reformism or radicalism?

Notes:

"First edition published by Routledge, 1990; third edition published by Routledge, 2009"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-392) and index.

ISBN:

9780415820714

0415820715

9780415820721

0415820723

OCLC:

1046602391