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  • Wasted

    Counting the costs of global consumption

    by Michael Redclift ...
    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 bebrought about?Taking the 1992 Rio Summit as its point of departure, Wasted examines what we now need ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development

    Exploring the Contradictions

    by Michael Redclift ...
    Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Refashioning Nature

    Food, Ecology and Culture

    by David Goodman, Michael Redclift ...
    We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Development and the Environmental Crisis

    Red or Green Alternatives

    by Michael Redclift ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1984, Michael Redclift’s book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism.Michael Redclift argues that a close analysis of the environmental crisis in the South reveals the importance of the share of resources obtained by different social groups. The development strategies based on ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Wasted

    Counting the Costs of Global Consumption

    by Michael Redclift ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    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 need ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

    Edited by Michael Redclift, Delyse Springett ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy as well as limited throughput of materials and energy. The nature of sustainable development and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Sustainability

    Life Chances and Livelihoods

    Edited by Michael Redclift ...
    The concept of sustainability is traditionally viewed in exclusively environmental terms. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods links peoples livelihoods and life chances to the concept of sustainability by examining the way in which social and economic processes complement and compound environmental change. Looking at the main ingredients of sustainable development - health, economic ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Climate Change and the Crisis of Capitalism

    A Chance to Reclaim, Self, Society and Nature

    Edited by Mark Pelling, David Manuel-Navarrete, Michael Redclift ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Are established economic, social and political practices capable of dealing with the combined crises of climate change and the global economic system? Will falling back on the wisdoms that contributed to the crisis help us to find ways forward or simply reconfigure risk in another guise? This volume argues that the combination of global environmental change and global economic restructuring ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Theory and the Global Environment

    by Ted Benton, Michael Redclift ...
    This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact. The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broader understanding of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Chewing Gum

    The Fortunes of Taste

    by Michael Redclift ...
    In Chewing Gum, Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic Indians in the jungles of southern Mexico. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Green Development

    Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World

    by Bill Adams ...
    The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it. Green Development provides a clear and coherent analysis of sustainable development in both theory and practice.Green Development explores the origins and evolution of mainstream thinking about sustainable development and offers a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainability

    A History

    by Jeremy L. Caradonna ...
    The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging from small advocacy organizations to city and state governments to the United Nations tout "sustainable development" as a strategy for local and global stability; and woe betide the city-dweller who doesn't aim for a "sustainable lifestyle." Seeming ... Read more

    $18.99 USD