Description
A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - "...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations". This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this definition, and to look at the critiques of the economic approach - which have their basis in growing disquiet over the role of the productive normative science driving technological change and economic transformation. The discussion is followed by studies of the application of the criteria of sustainability to rural problems in South Asia, Kenya, Nepal, and Latin America and to urban/industrial problems in Jamaica, Chile and Vietnam.
Table of Contents
List of Figures, List of Tables, Contributors, Foreword, Part I: Introduction, 1. An Overview of Approaches to Sustainable Development, Part II: Approaches to Sustainable Development, 2. Accounting for Sustainability, 3. Sustainable Management of Water Resources: An Economic View, 4. Labour Force Analysis as a Means to Understand the Livelihood Dimension of Sustainability, 5. Sustainable Utilization: A Grand Illusion?, Part III: Rural Applications of Sustainability, 6. Population and Food in South Asia: Recent Trends and Prospects, 7. Land, Livestock and Livelihoods: Towards Sustainable Pastoral Development in Marsabit District, Kenya, 8. Annapurna Conservation Area Project: In Pursuit of Sustainable Development?, 9. Global Processes and the Politics of Sustainable Development in Colombia and Costa Rica, Part IV: Coping with Industrialization and Pollution, 10. Sustaining Mineral-driven Development: Chile and Jamaica, 11. Pollution Patterns in the Industrialization Process, 12. Industrialization in Vietnam: Social Change and Environment in Transitional Developing Countries, 13. The International Dimensions of Sustainable Development: Rio Reconsidered, 14. Sustainable Development: Taking Stock, Name Index, Subject Index
