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Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management)
 
 

Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in the Third World (The Natural Environment: Problems and Management) [Paperback]

William M. Adams (Author)


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0415147662 978-0415147668 September 15, 2001 2
This revised new edition of Green Development retains the clear and powerful argument which characterised the original. It gives a valuable analysis of the theory and practice of sustainable development and suggests that at the start of the new millennium, we should think radically about the challenge of sustainability.
This fully revised edition discusses:
* the roots of sustainable development thinking and its evolution in the last three decades of the twentieth century * the dominant ideas within mainstream sustainable development * the nature and diversity of alternative ideas about sustainability * the problems of environmental degradation and the environmental impacts of development * strategies for building sustainability in development from above and below.
Green Development II offers a synthesis of the distinctly theoretical ideas on sustainability based on the industrialised economies of the North and the practical, applied ideas in the South which tend to ignore 'First World' theory. It gives a clear discussion of theory and extensive practical insights drawn from Africa, Latin America and Asia. It now has further reading and chapter outlines and summaries for the student reader.

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Green Development is an excellent and useful book that accurately portrays the conundrum of development planning....
–Dan Klooster, Florida State University, Tallahassee

[Adams]... argue[s] that mainstream economists should listen to the more radical environmental arguments, if for no other reason than to recognize additional costs of development... [He] also maintains that radical environmentalists need to look further at political economy theories of developing nations. This book is particularly noteworthy for the extensive bibliography and useful Web links at the end of each section. Appropriate for graduate, practitioner, and research library collections.
–Choice

About the Author

Dr Bill Adams has worked for over 20 years researching the problems of environment and development in Afrcia. He is Reader in Conservation and Development in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (September 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0415147662
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415147668
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #968,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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First Sentence:
It is a familiar cliche that actions speak louder than words, but this denies the power of words, and the ideas of those who make and spread them. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mainstream sustainable development, sustainable development mainstream, reservoir evacuees, sustainable development thinking, floodplain people, ecological modernisation, resettlement planning, fortress conservation, environmentalist thinking, tropical forest management, market environmentalism, ecological economics approach, floodplain ecosystems, forest convention, flooding patterns, river basin planning, sustainable utilisation, environmentalist critiques, green critiques, political ecology, natural capital, combating desertification, floodplain environments, strong sustainability, desertification control
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third World, World Bank, United Nations, First World, Rio Conference, Our Common Future, West Africa, General Assembly, Brundtland Report, World Commission, Second World War, Stockholm Conference, Maurice Strong, New York, South Africa, Earth Summit, Friends of the Earth, Latin America, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, World Resources Institute, Cambridge University Press, Conservation Foundation, Ulrich Beck, Conference of the Parties
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