Implementing sustainable development : strategies and initiatives in high consumption societies

edited by William M. Lafferty and James R. Meadowcroft

Examining how governments in the developed industrial world have responded to the challenge of sustainable development, this text shows that the concept has been integrated into governmental idiom in most jurisdictions

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Year of publication:	2000
Other Persons:	Meadowcroft, James (contributor) ; Lafferty, William M. (contributor)
Publisher:	Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press
Subject:	Nachhaltige Entwicklung \| Sustainable development \| Theorie \| Theory \| Welt \| World

Extent:	Online-Ressource (xx, 523 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-498) and index Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Australia : ecological sustainable development in the national interest / Elim PapadakisCanada : from early frontrunner to plodding anchorman / Glen Toner -- Germany : regulation and the precautionary principle / Christiane Beuermann -- Japan : law, technology, and aid / Miranda Schreurs -- The Netherlands : ambitious on goals--ambivalent on action / Marie-Louise van Muijen -- Norway : reluctantly carrying the torch / Oluf Langhelle -- Sweden : progression despite recession / Katarina Eckerberg -- The United Kingdom : from political containment to integrated thinking? / Stephen C. Young -- The United States : 'Sorry--not our problem' / Gary C. Bryner -- The European Union : integration, competition, growth--and sustainability / Susan Baker -- Patterns of governmental engagement / William M. Lafferty and James Meadowcroft -- Concluding perspectives / William M. Lafferty and James Meadowcroft. Electronic reproduction
ISBN:	0-19-152227-9 ; 978-0-19-152227-7 ; 0-19-829436-0 ; 0-19-924201-1 ; 978-0-19-829436-8 ; 978-0-19-924201-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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