| Description |
ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Environmental politics |
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Environmental politics (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Introduction / Michael Kenny and James Meadowcroft -- 1. Planning for sustainable development: what can be learned from the critics? / James Meadowcroft -- 2. A century of planning / Charles E. Lindblom -- 3. Pathways to sustainability: issues, policies and theories / Michael Redclift -- 4. Sustainability and markets: on the neo-classical model of environmental economics / Michael Jacobs -- 5. Scale, complexity and the conundrum of sustainability / William Rees -- 6. From sustainability to basic income / Wouter Achterberg -- 7. Three decades of environmental planning: what have we really learned? / Paul Selman -- 8. National environmental policy planning in the face of uncertainty / Martin Janicke and Helge Jorgens -- 9. Local sustainability in a sea of globalisation? The case of food policy / Tim Lang |
| Summary |
Environmental sustainability has become one of the most salient issues on the policy agenda of nation-states. This book argues that planning is seldom credited by advocates of environmental politics |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held in 1995 at Sheffield University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available in print |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Sustainable development -- Planning -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kenny, Michael.
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Meadowcroft, James.
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| LC no. |
98033290 |
| ISBN |
0415164761 (hc : alk. paper) |
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041516477X (paperback: alk. paper) |
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