Global Development and Environment / Joe Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Joe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Sustainable development--Econometric models.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book critically intervenes in the 'global development shift'. Argued by some to signal a 'new paradigm' of development thought, the recent - often controversial - series of calls for a new global concept of development seeks to move beyond the preceding discourse of international development and to capture the changing contours of poverty and development challenges in the 21st century. The book discusses the arguments and counter-arguments for this new intellectual framing of development and how, why, and by whom environmental challenges and development challenges are being recast in global and planetary terms. In doing so, we contribute to a mid-level theory of environment and development that eschews the universalizing tendencies of 'global' thought in favour of a more relational and egalitarian 'planetary' perspective. The opening chapters cover theoretical and contested perspectives on global development and environment. Later chapters explore different processes of development, including urbanization, demographic change, health and wellbeing, the role of finance in development, and infrastructure corridors. Rather than providing a comprehensive review of debates surrounding the global development shift, we offer a set of provocations and illustrative ways of exploring the tensions between situated and general forms of knowledge. Our purpose is to push the global development shift beyond its current framing, and to produce new interdisciplinary ways of thinking about development and environment from a global or planetary perspective.

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