The Politics of Sustainable Development: Theory, Policy and Practice Within the European Union

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Susan Baker
Psychology Press, 1997 - Business & Economics - 276 pages
The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme. It dominated the Rio Earth Summit and its promotion has been much in evidence in the subseque

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the theory and practice of sustainable
1
The politics of sustainable development
43
Sustainable development and the deep ecology movement
61
Sustainable development and the treadmill of production
72
The integration of sustainable development objectives
107
Sustainable development in Mediterranean Europe?
127
Policy networks local discourses and the implementation
152
Dimensions of sustainable development and scales
175
lessons
198
Communitybased partnerships and sustainable
217
sustainable development in the twentyfirst
259
Index
269
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