Wasted - Counting the Costs of Global Consumption (Hardcover)

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 to know, and what we need to do, to live within sustainable limits. One of the key issues is how we use the environment: converting natural resources into human artifices, commodities and services. In the process of consuming, we also create sinks. Today, these sinks - the empty back pocket in the global biogeographical system - are no longer empty. The fate of the global environment is indissolubly linked to our consumption: particularly in the energy-profligate North. To understand and overcome environmental challenges, we need to build the outcomes of our present consumption rates into our future behavior: to accept sustainable development as a normative goal for societies; one that is bound up with our everyday social practices and actions. In this absorbing new book, Michael Redclift argues that the way we understand and think about the environment conditions our responses, and our ability to meet the challenge, and discusses tangible policies for increased sustainability that are grounded in recent research and practice.

General

Imprint:	Earthscan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Sustainable Development Set
Release date:	July 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Michael Redclift
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-84407-943-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
LSN:	1-84407-943-0
Barcode:	9781844079438

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