Book description
Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992, there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This text charts the growth of these ideas by beginning with a visionary piece written by Barbara Ward in the 1970s, and ends with a chapter looking ahead another 30 years into the future. Two generations of thinkers and activists have helped to shape environment and development policy and increase local level power in environmental management. In celebration of their 30th anniversary, the IIED's most influential writers provide in this volume a perspective on three decades of development and green debates.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the authors
- Chronology of key events
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I BEGINNING WITH HOPE
- PART II THREE DECADES OF CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
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PART III IIED PROGRAMMES
- 7 Forestry and land use
- 8 The energy programme
- 9 Sustainable agriculture
- 10 Setting an urban agenda: Human settlements and IIED América Latina
- 11 Drylands: A history of networks
- 12 Economics of environment and development
- 13 Strategies, plans, impacts and people: IIED’s role in changing the world of planning and environmental assessment
- 14 Profit in need? Business and sustainable development
- PART IV ENDPIECE
- Index of people
Product information
- Title: Evidence for Hope
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781136566165
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