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Volume 6: A Survey of Sustainable Development

Edited by: Harris, Jonathan M.; Wise, Timothy; Gallagher, Kevin; Goodwin, Neva R.

Series Editor: Neva R. Goodwin

Published by: Island Press, Washington, DC 2001

ISBN: 1-55963-863-X

  Authors of Original Articles
  Foreword for Volume 6
  Acknowledgments
  Volume Introduction

PART I
Economics of Sustainability: The Environmental Dimension

  Overview Essay
  Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
  Environmental Economics, Ecological Economics, and the Concept of Sustainable Development
  On the Problem of Achieving Efficiency and Equity, Intergenerationally
  Economics and “Sustainability”: Balancing Trade-offs and Imperatives
  From Political Economy to Political Ecology
  Green Accounting and Economic Policy
  Are We Saving Enough for the Future?
  Progress on the Environmental Kuznets Curve?

PART II
Economics of Sustainability: The Social Dimension

  Overview Essay
  The Human Development Paradigm
  Sustainable Livelihoods: The Poor’s Reconciliation of Environment and Development
  Markets, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion
  Gendered Poverty and Well-Being: Introduction
  Government Action, Social Capital and Development: Reviewing the Evidence on Synergy
  Good Government in the Tropics: Introduction

PART III
Global Perspectives: The North/South Imbalance

  Overview Essay
  Views from the Periphery: Encountering Development
  Global Ecology and the Shadow of Development
  Biodiversity: A Third World Perspective
  Global Warming in an Unequal World: A Case of Environmental Colonialism
  Lifestyle Is the Problem
  Enclosing the Global Commons: Global Environmental Negotiations in a North-South Conflictual Approach

PART IV
Population and Urbanization

  Overview Essay
  Government, Population, and Poverty: A Win-Win Tale
  An Ecologist View of the Malthusian Conflict
  Accelerated Resource Degradation by Agriculture in Developing Countries?: The Role of Population Change and Responses to It
  People and Environment: What Is the Relationship between Exploitation of Natural Resources and Population Growth in the South?
  Population and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century: India’s Megacities
  Mexico City: Our Common Future?
  Reinventing Cities for People and the Planet

PART V
Agriculture and Renewable Resources

  Overview Essay
  Food Security and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources: A 2020 Vision
  Sustainable Agriculture
   Environmental Risks Posed by Transgenic Crops
  Population Extinction and Saving Biodiversity
  Rocking the Boat: Conserving Fisheries and Protecting Jobs
   The World’s Forests: Problems and Potentials

PART VI
Materials, Energy and Climate Change

  Overview Essay
  Materialization and Dematerialization: Measures and Trends
  Material Use and Sustainable Affluence
   Balancing China’s Energy, Economic, and Environmental Goals
  Environmental Quality, Energy Efficiency, and Renewable Energy
  The Costs of Climate Protection: A Guide for the Perplexed
  Equity and Discounting in Climate-Change Decisions

PART VII
Globalization and Sustainability

  Overview Essay
  Globalization: Threat or Salvation?
  From Adjustment to Sustainable Development: The Obstacle of Free Trade
  Ecological Distribution, Agricultural Trade Liberalization, and In Situ Genetic Diversity
  Multinational Corporations in the Neo-Liberal Regime
  Foreign Investment, Globalization, and Environment
  Globalization and Social Integration
  Reconciling Economic Reform and Sustainable Human Development: Social Consequences of Neo-Liberalism
  Impacts of Structural Adjustment on the Sustainability of Developing Countries

PART VIII
Taming the Corporation

  Overview Essay
  The Corporate Accountability Movement: Lessons and Opportunities
  Socially Responsible Investing: An Evolving Concept in a Changing World
  Corporate Social Responsibility
  Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship
  Civil Associations (as published in A Survey of Sustainable Development)
   Toward a Global Civil Economy (as published in A Survey of Sustainable Development)
  Sustainability and the Accountable Corporation

PART IX
Local and National Strategies

  Overview Essay
  A Theory of Government Intervention in Late Industrialization
  An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  From Class Struggle to Class Compromise: Redistribution and Growth in a South Indian State
  New Strategies for Rural Sustainable Development: Popular Participation, Food Self-Sufficiency, and Environmental Regeneration
  African Development That Works
  Challenges to Community-Based Sustainable Development
  What is Micro-Enterprise Development for Women? Widening the Agenda

PART X
Reforming Global Institutions

  Overview Essay
  Alternatives to the International Monetary Fund
  The World Bank and Poverty


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