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Title A sustainable world : defining and measuring sustainable development / edited by Thaddeus C. Trzyna with the assistance of Julia K. Osborn
Published Sacramento : Published for IUCN - the World Conservation Union by the International Center for the Environment and Public Policy, California Institute of Public Affairs, [1995]
©1995

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Description 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Sustainability : rhetoric or reality? / David A. Munro -- Knowledge for sustainable development : what do we need to know? / Stephen Viederman -- Authentic development : is it sustainable? / Denis Goulet -- Sustainabilism and twelve other "isms" that threaten the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean / Nicolo Gligo -- Monitoring for sustainability / Eric Rodenburg -- Toward environmentally sustainable development : measuring progress / John C. O'Connor -- The Euruopean sustainability index project / Tjeerd Deelstra -- Assessing progress toward sustainability : a new approach / IUCN International Assessment Team -- Limitations in measuring ecosystem sustainability / Richard A. Carpenter -- Environmental indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean : tools for sustainability / Manuel Winograd -- National economic indicators and sustainable development / Fulai Sheng -- Poverty alleviation and sustainability : the case of Zimbabwe / Calvin Nhira -- Learning our way out : indicators of social environmental learning / Matthias Finger and James Kilcoyne, Jr. -- Linking sustainability indicators to performance goals at national and subnational levels / Walter H. Corson
Analysis Sustainable development Congresses
Ecology
Economic policy
International comparisons
Natural resource management
Overseas item
Social policy
Sustainable development
Notes Published for IUCN-The World Conservation Union
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-268) and index
Subject Sustainable development -- Congresses.
Sustainable development.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Osborn, Julia K.
Trzyna, Thaddeus C., 1939-
International Union for Conservation of Nature.
LC no. 94025490
ISBN 1853832677
1880028026