Description
| Product ID: | 9781138069039 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks |
| Title: | Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development |
| Authors: | Author: Delyse Springett, Michael Redclift |
| Page Count: | 472 |
| Subjects: | Development studies, Development studies, Politics and government, Environmental economics, Biodiversity, Climate change, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Politics & government, Environmental economics, Biodiversity, Climate change, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
| Description: | This Handbook provides a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key dimensions of sustainable development, (institutional, environmental, social and economic), with calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy. Each chapter underlines the need for discursive interdisciplinarity, which is key to the book''s theorization of the concept. The book is also unusual in including indigenous perspectives and alternative worldviews. This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and the book’s theorization of the concept underline the need for interdisciplinarity in the discourse as exemplified in each chapter of this volume. The Handbook employs a critical framework that problematises the concept of sustainable development and the struggle between discursivity and control that has characterised the debate. It provides original contributions from international experts coming from a variety of disciplines and regions, including the Global South. Comprehensive in scope, it covers, amongst other areas:
The Handbook offers researchers and students in the field of sustainable development invaluable insights into a contested concept and the alternative worldviews that it has fostered. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-05-03 |
