Bill Adams

Green Development

Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development and explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about it. It critiques of the ideas behind them and draws a link between theory and practice by discussing the nature of the environmental degradation and the impacts of development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 4 ed
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 180mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1082g
• ISBN-13: 9780415820714
• ISBN-10: 0415820715
• Artikelnr.: 58381068

Autorenporträt

Professor Bill Adams has worked for over forty years on the problematic interactions between nature and human society, mostly in Africa and the UK. He holds the Moran Chair of Conservation and Development in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. He was awarded the Busk Medal by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2004. He blogs at Thinking Like a Human (www.thinkinglikeahuman.com).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The dilemma of sustainability 2. The roots of sustainable development 3.
Mainstream sustainable development 4. Sustainability and Natural Capital 5.
Neoliberalism and the Green Economy 6. Corporations and sustainability 7.
Sustainability and Degrowth 8. The political forest 9. Desertification 10.
Famine, Food and Farming 11. The Political Ecology of Biodiversity 12.
Engineering Development 13. Green development: reformism or radicalism?