Implementing Sustainable Development Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies,9780199242016

Implementing Sustainable Development Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies

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ISBN13: 9780199242016
ISBN10: 0199242011
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-02-15
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis of initiatives undertaken by nine national governments and the European Union reveal important differences in the ways the international commitment to sustainable devolopment has been received.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
ix
List of Tables
xii
List of Figures
xiii
List of Abbreviations
xiv
Introduction
1(22)
William M. Lafferty
James Meadowcroft
Australia: Ecological Sustainable Development In The National Interest
23(30)
Elim Papadakis
Canada: From Early Frontrunner To Plodding Anchorman
53(32)
Glen Toner
Germany: Regulation And The Precautionary Principle
85(27)
Christiane Beuermann
Japan: Law, Technology, And AID
112(30)
Miranda Schreurs
The Netherlands: Ambitious On Goals--Ambivalent On Action
142(32)
Marie-Louise van Muijen
Norway: Reluctantly Carring The Torch
174(35)
Oluf Langhelle
Sweden: Progression Despite Recession
209(36)
Katarina Eckerberg
The United Kingdom: From Political Containment To Integrated Thinking?
245(28)
Stephen C. Young
The United States: `Sorry---Not Our Problem'
273(30)
Gary C. Bryner
The European Union: Integration, Competition, Growth---And Sustainability
303(34)
Susan Baker
Patterns Of Governmental Engagement
337(85)
William M. Lafferty
James Meadowcroft
Concluding Perspectives
422(38)
William M. Lafferty
James Meadowcroft
Consolidated Bibliography 460(39)
Index 499

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