Implementing Sustainable Development : Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies.
This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis of initiatives undertaken by nine national governments and the European Union reveal important differences in the ways the international commitment t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Scholarship Online
2000.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online. Political Science module.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis of initiatives undertaken by nine national governments and the European Union reveal important differences in the ways the international commitment to sustainable development has been received. - ;At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, political leaders from more than a hundred countries made a formal commitment to intensify efforts to resolve global environment and development problems and to strive for sustainable development. This volume examines how governments in the developed industrial world have responded to the challenge of sustainable development since it was catapulted into the international stage. It focuses on central government engagement with sustainable development in Australia, Canada, Japan, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union. The study shows that sustainable development has been integrated into governmental idiom in most jurisdictions and has come to be associated with a series of changes to the structures and approaches deployed to manage environmental problems. Yet, it also reveals significant differences of interpretation and priority, and in the enthusiasm with which sustainable development has been received. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (544 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-498) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1281943800 9781281943804 9780191599736 0191599735 9780199242016 0199242011 |