TitleImplementing sustainable development : strategies and initiatives in high consumption societies / edited by William M. Lafferty and James Meadowcroft
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000
Descript xx, 523 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Introduction -- Australia: ecological sustainable development in the national interest -- Canada: from early frontrunner to plodding anchorman -- Germany: regulation and the precautionary principle -- Japan: law, technology, and aid -- The Netherlands: ambitious on goals-ambivalent on action -- Norway: reluctantly carrying the torch -- Sweden: progression despite recession -- The United Kingdom: from political containment to integrated thinking? -- The United States: 'sorry-not our problem -- The European Union: integration, competition, growth-and sustainability -- Patterns of governmental engagement -- Concluding perspectives


SUBJECT

  1. Sustainable development -- Case studies
  2. Economic policy -- Case studies
  3. resources conservation
  4. society

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