Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. The Handbook discusses both the profound environmental and theoretical critique against development as modernization and economic growth, and how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject.
Weighing up the successes and failures linked to environmental concerns in development and environment policy and practice, it recognizes the roots of international development as a Western project linked to the expansion of an environmentally destructive capitalism. Through active dialogue across geographical areas, disciplines and epistemologies, chapters critically assess current perspectives on the topic, including decolonialism, degrowth and post-development. Grounded in recent research on topics such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure, forest protection, supply chain management, climate negotiations and the renewable transition, the Handbook integrates a range of different viewpoints on international development and the environment to provide a fresh take on this contentious relationship.
With an international scope, this expansive Handbook will be integral reading for students and scholars of development and the environment. It will also be a beneficial read for practitioners working in international organizations and development agencies.
| ISBN: | 9781800883772 |
| Publication date: | 16th June 2023 |
| Author: | Benedicte Bull, Mariel AguilarStøen |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 350 pages |
| Series: | Elgar Handbooks in Development |
| Genres: |
Development studies Environmentalist thought and ideology Conservation of the environment Reference works |
Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. The Handbook discusses both the profound environmental and theoretical critique against development as modernization and economic growth, and how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject.
Weighing up the successes and failures linked to environmental concerns in development and environment policy and practice, it recognizes the roots of international development as a Western project linked to the expansion of an environmentally destructive capitalism. Through active dialogue across geographical areas, disciplines and epistemologies, chapters critically assess current perspectives on the topic, including decolonialism, degrowth and post-development. Grounded in recent research on topics such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure, forest protection, supply chain management, climate negotiations and the renewable transition, the Handbook integrates a range of different viewpoints on international development and the environment to provide a fresh take on this contentious relationship.
With an international scope, this expansive Handbook will be integral reading for students and scholars of development and the environment. It will also be a beneficial read for practitioners working in international organizations and development agencies.
Handbook on International Development and the Environment features in the following genres: Development studies, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Conservation of the environment, Reference works
Handbook on International Development and the Environment is available in Hardback
Handbook on International Development and the Environment was written by Benedicte Bull, Mariel AguilarStøen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing
Handbook on International Development and the Environment has 350 pages
Yes it is part of Elgar Handbooks in Development series