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Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World 4th edition [Minkštas viršelis]

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(University of Cambridge, UK)
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 402 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 960 g, 19 Tables, black and white; 27 Line drawings, black and white; 55 Halftones, black and white; 82 Illustrations, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415820723
  • ISBN-13: 9780415820721
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 402 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x174 mm, weight: 960 g, 19 Tables, black and white; 27 Line drawings, black and white; 55 Halftones, black and white; 82 Illustrations, black and white
  • Išleidimo metai: 23-Dec-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415820723
  • ISBN-13: 9780415820721
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"In print continuously since 1990, Green Development has won a place as a leading account of sustainable development used by generations of undergraduate and graduate students. This authoritative and readable text provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in theory and practice. The fourth edition of Green Development is fully revised, and up to date. It offers clear insights into the challenges of environmental sustain- ability, and social and economic development. The book has proved its value to generations of students as an authoritative, thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development"--

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.



The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice.

Green Development

explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about sustainable development and offers a critique of the ideas behind them. It draws a link between theory and practice by discussing the nature of the environmental degradation and the impacts of development. It argues that, ultimately, ‘green’ development has to be about political economy, about the distribution of power, and not about environmental quality. Its focus is strongly on the developing world.

The fourth edition retains the broad structure of previous editions, but has been updated to reflect advances in ideas and changes in international policy. Greater attention has been given to the political ecology of development, market-based and neoliberal environmentalism, and degrowth. This fully revised edition discusses:

  • the origins of thinking about sustainability and sustainable development, and its evolution to the present day;

  • the ideas that dominate mainstream sustainable development (including natural capital, the green economy, market environmentalism and ecological modernisation);

  • critiques of mainstream ideas and of neoliberal framings of sustainability, and alternative ideas about sustainability that challenge ‘business as usual’ thinking, such as arguments about limits to growth and calls for degrowth;

  • the dilemmas of sustainability in the context of forests, desertification, food and farming, biodiversity conservation and dam construction;

  • the challenge of policy choices about sustainability, particularly between reformist and radical responses to the contemporary global dilemmas.

Green Development

offers clear insights into the challenges of environmental sustainability, and social and economic development. It is unique in offering a synthesis of theoretical ideas on sustainability and in its coverage of the extensive literature on environment and development around the world. The book has proved its value to generations of students as an authoritative, thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development.

List of figures
xii
List of plates
xiv
List of tables
xvi
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xx
List of abbreviations
xxii
1 The dilemma of sustainability
1(21)
1.1 Are we all environmentalists now?
1(3)
1.2 Nature in the Anthropocene
4(5)
1.3 The idea of development
9(4)
1.4 Sustainable development as Babel fish
13(4)
1.5 What is `green' development?
17(1)
1.6 Outline of the book
18(4)
2 The roots of sustainable development
22(27)
2.1 Environmentalism and the emergence of sustainable development
22(1)
2.2 Nature as resource
23(5)
2.2.1 Imperialism and nature
23(2)
2.2.2 Fields, forests and efficiency
25(1)
2.2.3 The wise use of nature
26(2)
2.3 The protection of nature
28(5)
2.3.7 Protected areas
28(3)
2.3.2 Conservation and development
31(2)
2.4 Ecology and sustainability
33(8)
2.4.1 Ecology and resource management
33(3)
2.4.2 Ecology and colonial resources
36(2)
2.4.3 Ecology and development planning
38(2)
2.4.4 The ecological impacts of development
40(1)
2.5 A global environment
41(6)
2.5.1 Environmentalism's challenge
41(1)
2.5.2 Spaceships and limits
42(3)
2.5.3 Global science and sustainable development
45(2)
2.6 Making sustainable development
47(2)
3 Making mainstream sustainable development
49(32)
3.1 Beyond environmentalism: the Stockholm Conference 1972
49(4)
3.2 Environment and human needs: the Brundtland Commission
53(5)
3.3 Environment and development: the Rio Conference and Agenda 21
58(6)
3.3.1 The road to Rio
58(2)
3.3.2 The Rio Declaration
60(2)
3.3.3 Agenda 21
62(2)
3.4 Forests and biodiversity
64(3)
3.4.7 Rio's Forest Principles
64(2)
3.4.2 The Convention on Biological Diversity
66(1)
3.5 Climate change
67(5)
3.5.1 The IPCC and climate change
67(1)
3.5.2 The Framework Convention on Climate Change
68(1)
3.5.3 Kyoto to Paris
69(3)
3.6 Poverty and sustainability
72(5)
3.6.1 The legacy of Rio
72(1)
3.6.2 Poverty: the Millennium Development Goals
73(2)
3.6.3 Rio+10
75(2)
3.7 Rebooting sustainable development: Rio+20
77(2)
3.8 The Sustainable Development Goals
79(2)
4 Sustainability and natural capital
81(27)
4.1 The economics of nature
81(2)
4.2 Ecosystem services as natural capital
83(12)
4.2.1 The idea of ecosystem services
83(2)
4.2.2 Mainstreaming ecosystem services
85(5)
4.2.3 Ecosystem services and poverty
90(2)
4.2.4 Valuing ecosystem services
92(2)
4.2.5 The awkwardness of ecosystems
94(1)
4.3 Strong and weak sustainability
95(3)
4.4 Calculating sustainability
98(3)
4.5 Trade-offs, equity and complexity
101(3)
4.6 Sustainable economies?
104(4)
5 Neoliberalism and the green economy
108(20)
5.1 Neoliberalism and nature
108(4)
5.1.1 Neoliberal environmentalism
108(2)
5.1.2 Environmentalism and radical thought
110(2)
5.2 Capitalism and nature
112(2)
5.3 The green economy
114(5)
5.3.1 Sustainable development and the green economy
114(1)
5.3.2 Ecological modernisation
115(4)
5.4 Market-based environmentalism
119(2)
5.5 Markets for nature
121(7)
5.5.7 Markets for ecosystem services
121(2)
5.5.2 Payments for ecosystem services (PES)
123(2)
5.5.3 Markets for sustainability
125(3)
6 Corporations and sustainability
128(28)
6.1 Development's risks
128(5)
6.7.1 Manufactured risk
128(2)
6.7.2 The politics of risk
130(1)
6.7.3 Regulating hazard
131(2)
6.2 Greening business
133(6)
6.2.1 Environmentalisms versus the corporation
133(2)
6.2.2 The `green' corporation
135(4)
6.3 Greening consumption
139(10)
6.3.1 Linking production and consumption
139(2)
6.3.2 Certification schemes
141(5)
6.3.3 Regulating timber
146(3)
6.4 Green mining?
149(7)
7 Sustainability and degrowth
156(20)
7.1 Growth and development
156(2)
7.2 Green critiques of developmentalism
158(8)
7.2.1 Ecologism
158(3)
7.2.2 Deep ecology
161(3)
7.2.3 Bioregionalism
164(1)
7.2.4 Ecofeminism
164(2)
7.3 Promethean environmentalism and its critics
166(1)
7.4 Limits to growth
167(2)
7.5 Degrowth
169(7)
8 The political forest
176(28)
8.1 The end of the forest
176(3)
8.2 Towards a political ecology
179(2)
8.3 The politics of knowing
181(1)
8.4 Narratives of deforestation
182(3)
8.5 The political ecology of deforestation
185(2)
8.6 Forest capitalism
187(4)
8.7 Forest people
191(4)
8.8 Forests for carbon
195(6)
8.9 Future forests
201(3)
9 Desertification
204(20)
9.1 Fear of deserts
204(3)
9.2 Crisis in the Sahel
207(3)
9.3 Drought and drylands
210(1)
9.4 Desertification as policy fact
211(3)
9.5 Desertification myths and policy
214(4)
9.6 Dryland optimism
218(6)
10 Famine, food and farming
224(21)
10.1 The ghost of Malthus
224(2)
10.2 The political ecology of famine
226(3)
10.3 Crisis and nexus
229(1)
10.4 Green revolutions and their discontents
230(2)
10.5 The problem of pesticides
232(3)
10.6 New revolutions
235(2)
10.7 Indigenous intensification
237(8)
11 The political ecology of biodiversity
245(32)
11.1 Conservation as politics
245(1)
11.2 Conservation power
246(2)
11.3 Conservation ideas
248(2)
11.4 Making space for nature
250(5)
11.4.1 Nature, nation and territory
250(2)
11.4.2 National parks and other protected areas
252(1)
11.4.3 Dream parks
253(2)
11.5 Spaces of exclusion
255(8)
11.5.1 Imposing wilderness
255(1)
11.5.2 Conservation displacement
256(2)
11.5.3 Benefits from parks
258(2)
11.5.4 Parks for people
260(3)
11.5.5 Conservation and indigenous people
263(1)
11.6 Mainstreaming conservation
263(6)
11.6.1 Conservation and development
263(2)
11.6.2 Conservation and poverty
265(1)
11.6.3 Integrating conservation with development
266(3)
11.7 Neoliberal conservation
269(8)
11.7.1 Private sector conservation
269(2)
11.7.2 Biodiversity offsetting
271(2)
11.7.3 Conservation's corporations
273(4)
12 Engineering development
277(35)
12.1 The power of infrastructure
277(1)
12.2 Modernity's grip
278(2)
12.3 Rebuilding the world
280(1)
12.4 Dreams and schemes
281(4)
12.5 Dams and resettlement
285(3)
12.6 Downstream impacts
288(6)
12.7 Opposition to dam construction
294(3)
12.8 Making dams that work
297(7)
12.8.1 Assessing impacts
297(1)
12.8.2 The World Commission on Dams
298(4)
12.8.3 After the Commission
302(2)
12.9 Dams and sustainability?
304(8)
12.9.1 `Green' power and the new dams rush
304(1)
12.9.2 Why dams still fail
305(2)
12.9.3 Turning losers into winners
307(1)
12.9.4 Letting rivers be rivers
308(4)
13 Green development: reformism or radicalism?
312(15)
13.1 In search of sustainability
312(1)
13.2 The political ecology of transition
313(3)
13.3 Sustainability from below
316(3)
13.4 Resistance for sustainability
319(2)
13.5 Social movements and transition
321(3)
13.6 Green development: reformism or radicalism?
324(3)
References 327(66)
Index 393
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).