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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development - Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms (Hardcover)
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The Political Economy of Sustainable Development - Policy Instruments and Market Mechanisms (Hardcover)
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This excellent volume provides an empirically robust, critically
informed but also eminently readable interrogation of the politics
and practice of sustainable development. Through a global
governance and political economy lens it traverses the public and
the private, and the local and the global and offers some carefully
thought-through hope for a better way forward.' - Lorraine Elliott,
Australian National University, Australia and the Academic Council
on the UN System'Inaction on climate change and sustainable
development is not an option. But we also do not have the luxury of
time and resources for wasted efforts and ineffective actions. This
book cuts through the political wrangling and the policy morass to
identify interventions that can make a real difference. It is a
refreshing, deep dive into the relative merits of key policy
instruments and market mechanisms for tackling our most intractable
sustainability challenges. If you want to make informed - rather
than conformed - decisions on sustainable development policy, this
is the book for you. The UN Sustainable Development Goals may give
us the Why and the What for creating a better future. This book
gives us the How.' - Wayne Visser, author of Sustainable Frontiers
and Director of Kaleidoscope Futures 'An in-depth and critical
interrogation of the politics of sustainable development and how
policies in pursuit of this often elusive ideal are formulated,
implemented and financed. Timothy Cadman and colleagues have
provided an incisive tour de force that pays particular attention
to private sector environmental governance as an institutional form
that exists beyond governments.' - David Humphreys, The Open
University, UK Since the Rio 'Earth' Summit of 1992, sustainable
development has become the major policy response to tackling global
environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of
biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as
emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber
certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the
sustainable management of the earth's natural resources. Yet how
effective are they - and do they help the planet and developing
countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book
investigates these important questions. Providing a comprehensive
analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the
authors compare the divergent approaches to emissions trading.
Included is a detailed investigation into illegal logging and the
effectiveness of policy responses, with an evaluation of different
forest certification schemes. Biodiversity offsets and
environmental payments are also explored. Integral to the book are
interviews and opinions of the key stakeholders in the political
economy of sustainable development. This uniquely comprehensive
analysis of the governance quality of different sustainable
development mechanisms, unprecedented in its panorama of
comparative case studies, is essential reading for all those in the
policy, academic and non-governmental communities.
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