William Ascher

Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy

Herausgeber: Ascher, William L; Mirovitskaya, Natalia

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Produktbeschreibung

"This useful reference work provides grounding for two essential tasks: understanding the needs of the present, and engaging with the compromises implicit in any attempt to assure that future generations will be able to meet their own needs."--Kai N. Lee, Williams College

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 156mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327356
• ISBN-10: 082232735X
• Artikelnr.: 21551897

Autorenporträt

Natalia Mirovitskaya is Visiting Research Fellow of Public Policy at Duke University. She is the author of Biological Resources of the Ocean: International Aspects and numerous other publications on international environmental policy and resource management. William L. Ascher is Vice President, Dean of the Faculty, and Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in California. His numerous books include Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries, coauthored with Robert Healy and also published by Duke University Press. Mirovitskaya and Ascher are also coauthors of The Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction xxix
Contributors xxxiii
1. Basic Concepts of Development and Environment
2. Sustainability
3. Main Factors Behind Development and Environmental Change
4. International Political Economy of Environment and Development
5. Decision Making
6. Major Problems of Environmental Degradation and Development
References 353
Index 371