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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780995903321

Autore

Harris Jonathan Mark

Titolo

Rethinking Sustainability [[electronic resource] ] : Power, Knowledge, and Institutions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-42365-7

9786612423659

0-472-02373-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Evolving Values for a Capitalist World

Disciplina

333

Soggetti

Economic development -- Social aspects

Economic development -- Sociological aspects

Electronic books. -- local

Environmental economics

Sustainable development

Business & Economics

Economic History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: An Assessment of Sustainable Development""; ""Part 1. Institutional Perspectives on Sustainable Development""; ""1. Sustainability and Systemic Issues in a New Era""; ""2. The Case for the Global Commons""; ""3. Development Connections: The Hedgerow Model""; ""4. Wealth, Poverty, and Sustainable Development""; ""5. Free Trade or Sustainable Trade? An Ecological Economics Perspective""; ""Part 2. Sustainability and Institutions in Practice""; ""Introduction to Part 2: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions in Development Practice""

""6. Stories People Tell: The Cultural Construction of Environmental Policy in Africa""""7. Political Power and Environmental Sustainability in Agriculture""; ""8. Toward a Learning Paradigm: New Professionalism and Institutions for Agriculture""; ""9. Does Food Security Require Local Food Systems?""; ""10. Community, Ecology, and Landscape Change in Zambrana-Chacuey""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""