Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions - Hardcover

Redclift, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0416902405 ISBN 13: 9780416902402

Publisher: Routledge, 1987

Synopsis

Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Redclift teaches at the University of London.

Review

"Consider that the environment is a social construction and environmental change a product of the world-system evolving. Current paths of accumulation produce unacceptable costs, so sustainable development must be another path. . . . Any resolution of these contradictions will rethink not just the international economic structure but technology, social theory, and politics. This is an important contribution to a crucial debate."
-"World Development

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0416902405
• ISBN 13: 9780416902402
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200