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

• Autore: Harris Jonathan Mark
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 333
• Soggetto topico: Economic development -- Social aspects; Economic development -- Sociological aspects; Electronic books. -- local; Environmental economics; Sustainable development; Business & Economics; Economic History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): HarrisJonathan Mark
• 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking Sustainability
• ISBN: 1-282-42365-7; 9786612423659; 0-472-02373-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455608103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Evolving Values for a Capitalist World Ser.