1st Edition

Wasted Counting the Costs of Global Consumption

By Michael Redclift Copyright 1996
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge differences in economic development and levels of consumption between North and South, how might this be brought about? Taking the 1992 Rio Summit as its point of departure, Wasted examines what we now... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Earth Summit; Chapter 3 Meeting Environmental Targets; Chapter 4 The Global Economy and Consumption; Chapter 5 Managing Global Resources; Chapter 6 Metabolising Nature; Chapter 7 Sustainability and Social Commitments; Chapter 8Local Environmental Action;

Biography

Michael Redclift