"On Cattle and Ships: Culture, History, and Sustainable Development in Panama"
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
During the twentieth century, two different ways of relating with nature interacted in Panama…
Brian Furze explores the importance of environmental awareness in the context of alternative agrarian social relations.
Michael Redclift analyzes “sustainable development” as a product of the Modernist tradition, arguing for a new vision of the world in which the authority of science and technology is questioned and more emphasis is placed on cultural diversity.
Filomina Chioma Steady links shelter, women, and the environment in order to understand this important dimension of the crisis in human settlements, particularly in the provision of human shelters.
Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
Herman Daly, Michael Jacobs, and Henryk Skolimowski respond to Wilfred Beckerman’s article “Sustainable Development: Is it a Useful Concept?” Environmental Values 3, 3 (1994): 191–209.
Philip Sarre argues that new environmental values are needed as the advanced industrial economy becomes global.
Anja Nygren analyses the social and political discourses related to environment and sustainable development in Costa Rica.