World's Search for Sustainable Development

World's Search for Sustainable Development

A Perspective from the Global South

Sanwal, Mukul

Cambridge University Press

11/2015

334

Dura

Inglês

9781107122666

15 a 20 dias

730

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Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Social dimension of sustainability; Part I. Consumption in an Unequal World: Framing International Cooperation: 2. Geopolitics of the global environment; 3. Natural science - policy - institutions interface; 4. Focus on developing countries; 5. Limitations of multilateral environmental agreements; Part II. Climate Policy: Global to National: 6. Political origins of climate policy; 7. Questions on the framework; 8. Burden shifting rather than burden sharing; 9. Development of a shared vision; 10. The middle class and global ecological limits; 11. The new climate regime; Part III. Sustainable Development: National to Global: 12. Conceptual and institutional foundation; 13. Politics within the United Nations; 14. Limitations of the building blocks of sustainability; 15. Use of natural resources; 16. Distribution of natural resources; Part III. Consumption in a More Equal World: Shaping Societal Functions: 17. Geoeconomics of human well-being; 18. Social science - policy - society interface; 19. Reframing the 'common concern' from a physical to a social problem; 20. Developing a shared global vision; Part IV. Geopolitics to Geoeconomics: Rural-Urban Divide, Rather Than between Countries: 21. Urban areas: sustainable development and human well-being; 22. Rural areas: climate change, fragile states and human security; 23. Global sustainable development goals; 24. Transformative impact of the re-emergence of China; Part V. The Asian Century: 25. Moving from ideas to reality will depend on how Asia structures its urban future; Index.
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