| Description |
xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Global environmental change series |
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Global environmental change series.
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| Contents |
1. Sustainable development: the impasse and beyond -- 2. Realism: questions of ontology - understanding the causality of the unsustainable -- 3. Regulation and the conditioning of the unsustainable: questions of theory and practice -- 4. International food systems: creating spaces for foods and nature -- 5. Sugar -- 6. The regulation of the Barbados sugar industry -- 7. The regulation and re-regulation of the Australian sugar industry -- 8. The condition of sustainable development |
| Summary |
The idea of sustainable development is now widely used to legitimate, uphold and promote a variety of different agendas and activities, yet its practical use is increasingly being questioned and the concept itself regarded as cliched. The Condition of Sustainability advances both the theory and practice of this important concept, by incorporating key elements of contemporary social theory into sustainability debates, both at a conceptual and practical level. Bringing together key ideas from social theory, food regimes and sustainability debates, The Condition of Sustainability explores the political economy of sustainable development and presents a new and powerful way of thinking about sustainable development as well as a methodology for applying these ideas. It is now all too easy to dismiss the concept of sustainability out of hand; this book demonstrates that such dismissal is, at the very least, premature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sugar trade -- Australia -- Case studies.
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Sugar trade -- Barbados -- Case studies.
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Sustainable development.
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| Author |
Marsden, Terry.
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| LC no. |
98024232 |
| ISBN |
0415194938 |
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