1st Edition

Approaches to Sustainable Development

By Richard M. Auty, Katrina Brown Copyright 1997
313 Pages
by Routledge

313 Pages
by Routledge

313 Pages
by Routledge

A definition of sustainable development is that of the Brundtland Commission - ...development which meets the needs of the current generation without jeopardizing the needs of future generations. This volume seeks to analyze the economic basis for this definition, and to look at the critiques of the economic approach - which have their basis in growing disquiet over the role of the productive... Read more
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Biography

Richard Auty is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography, University of Lancaster. Katrina Brown is Lecturer at the School of Development Studies and Senior Research Fellow at CSERGE, University of East Anglia.