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Implementing Sustainable Development : Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (544 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191522277
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Implementing Sustainable DevelopmentDDC classification:
  • 338.9/27
LOC classification:
  • HC79.E5I5112 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AUSTRALIA: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST -- 3. CANADA: FROM EARLY FRONTRUNNER TO PLODDING ANCHORMAN -- 4. GERMANY: REGULATION AND THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE -- 5. JAPAN: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND AID -- 6. THE NETHERLANDS: AMBITIOUS ON GOALS-AMBIVALENT ON ACTION -- 7. NORWAY: RELUCTANTLY CARRYING THE TORCH -- 8. SWEDEN: PROGRESSION DESPITE RECESSION -- 9. THE UNITED KINGDOM: FROM POLITICAL CONTAINMENT TO INTEGRATED THINKING? -- 10. THE UNITED STATES: 'SORRY-NOT OUR PROBLEM' -- 11. THE EUROPEAN UNION: INTEGRATION, COMPETITION, GROWTH-AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 12. PATTERNS OF GOVERNMENTAL ENGAGEMENT -- 13. CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This book examines how governments in industrialised 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. AUSTRALIA: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST -- 3. CANADA: FROM EARLY FRONTRUNNER TO PLODDING ANCHORMAN -- 4. GERMANY: REGULATION AND THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE -- 5. JAPAN: LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND AID -- 6. THE NETHERLANDS: AMBITIOUS ON GOALS-AMBIVALENT ON ACTION -- 7. NORWAY: RELUCTANTLY CARRYING THE TORCH -- 8. SWEDEN: PROGRESSION DESPITE RECESSION -- 9. THE UNITED KINGDOM: FROM POLITICAL CONTAINMENT TO INTEGRATED THINKING? -- 10. THE UNITED STATES: 'SORRY-NOT OUR PROBLEM' -- 11. THE EUROPEAN UNION: INTEGRATION, COMPETITION, GROWTH-AND SUSTAINABILITY -- 12. PATTERNS OF GOVERNMENTAL ENGAGEMENT -- 13. CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES -- Consolidated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This book examines how governments in industrialised 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.

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