Sustainable Development

Susan Baker - Collection Routledge Introductions to Environment

250 pages, parution le 10/01/2006

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Résumé

Sustainable development is not just an issue for developing countries. A commitment to the promotion of sustainable development is deepening at the international, regional and national levels. It has become a norm of global environmental politics; it is a legal requirement of Member States of the EU; and, within a UK context, is forming an important part of environment and development strategies of devolved governments.

This heightened engagement over the past ten years for the advancement of sustainable development, by international and national actors, has exposed social, political and economic tensions that need to be explored. These tensions, in turn, call for a re-examination of the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the notion of sustainable development.

Sustainable Development answers the need for an introductory, comprehensive, yet critical, book that explores the challenges involved in the implementation of sustainable development. It combines an examination of the institutional engagement with sustainable development at the global level, with an emprically informed discussion on challenges facing high consumption societies, economies in transition and third world countires in their efforts to achieve sustainable development. It explores the issues involved in the promotion of sustainable development across different socio-political and economic contexts, in a theoretically informed, critical way.

L'auteur - Susan Baker

Following ten years as a marketing practitioner, Susan earned her PhD in management sciences from Cranfield School of Management where she now specialises in consumer marketing. She founded and directs the New Marketing Research Group, which works together with a consortium of client organizations to understand the impact on marketing of the New Consumer (www.new-marketing.org). She is a frequent keynote speaker at marketing and management conferences.

Sommaire

Theoretical and Conceptual Exploration
- Sustainable Development: Its origins, variety of meanings and social, economic and political importance
International Engagement with the Promotion of Sustainable Development
- UNICODE and the Construction of a Global Regime for the Promotion of Sustainable Development
- Key Components in the Promotion of Sustainable Development at the Global Level
- Participation and the Development of Local Strategies of the Promotion of Sustainable Development
The Promotion of Sustainable Development in Different Socio-political and Economic Contexts
- Promoting Sustainable Development in High Consumption Societies
- Promoting Sustainable Development in the Developing World
- Promoting Sustainable Development in Countries in Transition in East and Central Europe

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Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Susan Baker
Collection	Routledge Introductions to Environment
Parution	10/01/2006
Nb. de pages	250
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	450g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415282116
ISBN13	978-0-415-28211-6