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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.editor | WILLIAM M. LAFFERTY and JAMES MEADOWCROFT | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-03T07:07:49Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2018-12-03T07:07:49Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-19-924201-1 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26611 | - |
| dc.description | Over the past decade the idiom of sustainable development increasingly has come to frame international debates about environment and development policy-making. Catapulted to prominence by the report of the Brundtland Commission1 in 1987, sustainable development was formally endorsed as a policy objective by world leaders at the Rio Earth Summit2 five years later. It has been absorbed into the conceptual lexicon of international organiza- tions such as the World Bank and the OECD; been accorded its own global secretariat in the form of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD); and achieved near-constitutional status in the European Union through its incorporation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties. Around the globe political leaders and public administrators now routinely justify policies, projects, and initiatives in terms of the contribution they make to realizing sustainable development. Yet, while the idea has come to assume a central place in contemporary discussions of environment and development issues, there has been little | - |
| dc.language | en | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Implementing Sustainable development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies | en_US |
| dc.subject | Regional Development | en_US |
| dc.title | Implementing Sustainable development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies | en_US |
| dc.type | Book | en_US |
| Appears in Collections: | Regional and Local Development Studies | |
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