2nd Edition

Managing Sustainable Development

By Michael Carley, Ian Christie Copyright 2000
304 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

In a world where environmental problems spill across political, administrative and disciplinary boundaries, there is a pressing need for a clear understanding of the kinds of organizations, management structures and policy-making approaches required to bring about socially equitable and ecologically sustainable development. In this second edition, the authors incorporate lessons from a decade of... Read more
Preface * Part I: Introduction - The Ecology of an Industrial Planet * Sustainable Development and Political Change * Part II: The Western View of Human Kind and Nature - Science and Technology and the Natural World * Western Political Ideas and Sustainable Development * Part III: Global Integration and Local Democracy - The Global Economy: Interdependence, Inequality and the Environment * Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Dilemma of Development * Part IV: Innovative Management for Sustainable Development - Constraints on Integrated Management * Organisational Ecology and Innovative Management * Developing Action-Centred Networks for Environmental Management * Part V: Case Studies In Innovative Management - Groundwork Trusts: Environmental Rehabilitation Through Business-Community Partnerships * The IDEA Programme: Innovations in Development for Environmental Action * Growth Management Through Consensus In California * The Netherlands National Environmental Policy Plan * Conclusions * Notes and References * Index

Biography

Michael Carley is a fellow at the Institute of Ecology and Resource Management at the University of Edinburgh. Ian Christie is a Fellow at the Policy Studies Institute in London.

'It is well written and contains interesting case studies.' Axel Marx, Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium