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Description edit
This collection of essays examines the nature of sustainable development and the extent to which it is applicable in practical contexts. A key issue at stake is whether economic growth can actually be reconciled with global ecological needs.
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- Gould
- Jacobs
- Pridham
- Milos
- Tibbs
- Gamson
- Baker
- Weinberg
- Routledge
- Weale
- Schnaiberg
- Richardson
- Schumacher
- Morris
- Rio
- Frank Cass
- Stoker
- Williams
- Aguilar
- Achterberg
- Liberatore
- Haughton
- Hobson
- Grayson
- Dowding
- Rhodes
- Marshall
- Benson
- Pepperman Taylor
- Lafferty
- Steinsapir
- Macmillan
- Simon
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Mediterranean Europe
- Greece
- Spain
- Catalonia
- Leicester
- Italy
- Historic Edinburgh
- Madrid
- Brundtland
- Brussels
- West Midlands
- New York
- Birmingham
- Athens
- Britain
- Kalamas
- Uk
- Oxford
- Germany
- Cambridge
- England
- France
- Manchester
- Thesprotia
- Brazil
- Portugal
- Barcelona
- Usa
- Netherlands
- India
- Luxembourg
- Corfu
- Basingstoke
- Rome
- United States
- British Columbia
First Sentence edit
Sustainable development is a political fudge: a convenient form of words, promoted, though not invented, by the Brundtland Commission, which is sufficiently vague to allow conflicting parties, factions and interests to adhere to it without losing credibility.
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- Dewey: 333.7096
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