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Survey
of Sustainable Development
Social and
Economic Dimensions
Table
of Contents
Authors of Original Articles
Foreword by Amartya
Sen
Acknowledgments
Volume Introduction by Jonathan Harris
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
PERSPECTIVES
ON SUSTAINABILITY
Part I: Economics of Sustainability: The Environmental
Dimension
Overview
Essay
Jonathan Harris
Natural Capital
and Sustainable Development
Robert Costanza and Herman E. Daly
Environmental
Economics, Ecological Economics, and the Concept
of Sustainable Development
Giuseppe Munda
On the Problem
of Achieving Efficiency and Equity, Intergenerationally
Talbot Page
Economics
and “Sustainability”: Balancing Trade-offs
and Imperatives
Michael A. Toman
From Political
Economy to Political Ecology
Juan Martinez-Alier
reen Accounting
and Economic Policy
Salah El-Serafy
Are We Saving
Enough for the Future?
Kirk Hamilton and Michael Clemens
Progress
on the Environmental Kuznets Curve?
David. I. Stern
Part II:
Economics of Sustainability: The Social Dimension
Overview
Essay
Timothy Wise
The Human
Development Paradigm
Mahbub ul Haq
Sustainable
Livelihoods: The Poor’s Reconciliation of Environment
and Development
Robert Chambers
Markets,
Citizenship, and Social Exclusion
Charles Gore
Gendered
Poverty and Well-being
Shahra Razavi
Government
Action, Social Capital, and Development: Reviewing
the Evidence on Synergy
Peter Evans
Good Government
in the Tropics
Judith Tendler
Part III:
Global Dimensions: The North/South Imbalance
Overview
Essay
Timothy Wise
Views from
the Periphery: Encountering Development
Philip W. Porter and Eric S. Sheppard
Neo-Development:
“Global Ecological Management”
Wolfgang Sachs
Biodiversity:
A Third World Perspective
Vandana Shiva
Global Warming
in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism
Anil Argawal and S. Nerain
Lifestyle
is the Problem
Atiq Rahman
Enclosing
the Global Commons: Global Environmental Negotiations
in a North-South Conflictual Approach
Alain Lipietz
BUILDING
BLOCKS OF SUSTAINABILITY
Part IV: Population and Urbanization
Overview
Essay
Jonathan Harris
Government,
Population, and Poverty: A Win-Win Tale
Nancy Birdsall
An Ecologist
View of Malthusian Conflict
C. S. Holling
Accelerated
Resource Degradation by Agriculture in Developing
Countries?: The Role of Population Change and Responses
to It
Michael Lipto
People and
Environment: What is the Relationship between Exploitation
of Natural Resources and Population Growth in the
South?
Sara J. Scherr
Population
and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India’s
Megacities
Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel
Mexico City:
Our Common Future?
Priscilla Connolly
Reinventing
Cities for People and the Planet
Molly
O’Meara
Part V:
Agriculture and Renewable Resources
Overview
Essay
Jonathan Harris
Food Security
and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: a 2020
Vision Per Pinstrup-Anderson and Rajul Pandya-Lorch
Sustainable Agriculture
Gordon Conway
Environmental
Risks Posed by Transgenic Crops International Implications
of Commercialization and Conclusions and Recommendations
on Regulation of Transgenic Crops
Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellen
Population
Extinction and Saving Biodiversity
Paul R. Ehrlich and Gretchen C. Daily
Rocking the
Boat: Conserving Fisheries and Protecting Jobs
Anne Platt McGinn
The World’s
Forests: Problems and Potentials
Norman Myers
Part VI:
Energy, Materials, and Climate Change
Overview
Essay
Frank Ackerman
Materialization
and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends
Iddo K. Wernick, Robert Herman, Shekhar Govind,
and Jesse H. Ausubel
Material
Use and Sustainable Affluence
Frank Ackerman
Balancing
China’s Energy, Economic and Environmental
Goals
John Byrne, Bo Shen, and Xiuguo Li
Environmental
Quality, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy
Peter Fox-Penner
The Costs
of Climate Protection: A Guide for the Perplexed
Robert Repetto and Duncan Austin
Equity and
Discounting in Climate-Change Decisions
Robert C. Lind and Richard E. Schuler
POLICIES
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Part VII: Globalization and Sustainability
Overview
Essay
Kevin Gallagher
Globalization:
Threat or Salvation?
Paul Streeten
From Adjustment
to Sustainable Development: The Obstacle of Free
Trade
Herman Daly
Ecological
Distribution, Agricultural Trade Liberalization,
and In Situ Genetic Diversity
James Boyce
Multinational
Corporations and the Neo-Liberal Regime
James Crotty, Gerald Epstein, and Patricia Kelly
Foreign Investment,
Globalisation, and Environment
Daniel C. Esty and Bradford S. Gentry
Globalization
and Social Integration
Dharam Ghai and Cynthia Hewitt de Alcantara
Reconciling
Economic Reform and Sustainable Human Development:
Social Consequences of Neo-Liberalism
Lance Taylor and Ute Pieper
Impacts of
Structural Adjustment on the Sustainability of Developing
Countries
David Reed
Part VIII:
Taming the Corporation
Overview
Essay
Neva Goodwin
The Corporate
Accountability Movement: Lessons and Opportunities
Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
Socially
Responsible Investing: Doing Good While Doing Well
Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg, and Amy
L. Domini
Corporate
Social Responsibility
George A. Steiner and John F. Steiner
Toward a
new Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness
Relationship
Michael E. Porter and Claas van der Linde
Civil Associations
and Toward a Global Civil Economy
Severyn T. Bruyn
Sustainability
and the Accountable Corporation
Allen L. White
Part IX:
Local and National Strategies
Overview
Essay
Timothy Wise
A Theory
of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization
Alice H. Amsden
An Idea Whose
Time Has Come
M. Jeff Hamond, Stephen J. Delanio, Peggy Duxbury,
Alan H. Sanstad, and Christopher H. Stinson
From Class
Struggle to Class Compromise: Redistribution and
Growth in a South Indian State
Patrick Heller
New Strategies
for Rural Sustainable Development: Popular Participation,
Food Self-sufficiency, and Environmental Regeneration
David Barkin
African Development
That Works
Peter G. Veit, Adolfo Mascarenhas, and Okyeante
Ampadu-Agyei
Challenges
to Community-Based Sustainable Development
Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, and Ian Scoones
What is
Micro-Enterprise Development for Women? Widening
the Agenda
Linda Mayoux
Part X:
Reforming Global Institutions
Overview
Essay
Kevin Gallagher
Alternatives
to the International Monetary Fund
Robert Browne
The World
Bank and Poverty
Carlos A. Heredia
Assessing
the Impact of NGO Advocacy Campaigns on World Bank
Projects and Policies
Jonathan Fox and David Brown
Coping with
Ecological Globalization
Hilary French
The United
Nations Environment Programme and the United Nations
Development Programme
Alexandre Timoshenko and Mark Berman
Conflicts
of Global Ecology: Environmental Activism in Period
of Global Reach
Vandana Shiva
Excerpted
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Economic Dimensions. Jonathan M. Harris, Timothy Wise,
Kevin Gallagher, and Neva R. Goodwin, eds.
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