Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.

Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions

Redclift, Michael

Reference

Routledge

Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture

We live in a society as dominated by food preference as by sexual preference, as obsessed with eating too much as with eating too little. In this accessible, cross-disciplinary text, David Goodman and Michael Redclift look at the development of the modern food system, integrating different bodies of knowledge and debate concerning food, agriculture, the environment and the household. They link changes in our diet and concern with the environment to many of the problems afflicting developing countries: food shortages, poor nutrition and wholesale environmental destruction.

Business & Money

Goodman, David

Economics

This book marks a watershed in the social sciences. The qualitative, critical perspective of sociology and allied disciplines challenges the technocentric `managerialism' which dominates environmental policy, its discourse and its impact. The authors explore the relationship between social theory and sustainability in an attempt to transend technical rhetoric and embrace a broader understanding of `nature'.

Social Theory and the Global Environment (Global Environmental Change Series)

Benton, Ted

Sustainability links peoples' livelihoods and life chances to the concept of sustainability by examining the way in which social and economic processes complement and compound environmental change. Looking at the main ingredients of sustainable development - health, economic policy, land use, ethics and education, the book demonstrates the way in which the life chances of individuals both effect and are affected by, their environments.

Sustainability: Critical Concepts

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Sustainability:Cri Con Soc Sci

Sustainability: Critical Concpets

First published in 1984, Michael Redclift’s book makes the global environmental crisis a central concern of political economy and its structural causes a central concern of environmentalism.  Michael Redclift argues that a close analysis of the environmental crisis in the South reveals the importance of the share of resources obtained by different social groups. The development strategies based on the experiences and interests of Western capitalist countries fail to recognise that environmental degradation in the South is a product of inequalities in both global and local economic relations and cannot be solved simply by applying solutions borrowed from environmentalism in the North. The key to understanding the South’s environmental problems lies in the recognition that structural processes – markets, technology, state intervention – are also a determining influence upon the way natural resources are used.  Through his review of Europe’s Green Movement, contemporary breakthroughs in biotechnology and information systems and recent feminist discourse, Michael Redclift has enlarged the compass of the environmental debate and produced a book which should serve as a benchmark in future discussions of development and the environment. It will be of importance to students in a range of disciplines, within development studies, geography, ecology and the social sciences.

Development and the Environmental Crisis: Red or Green Alternatives

Development and the Environmental Crisis

In Chewing Gum, Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic Indians in the jungles of southern Mexico.

Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste

History

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Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions

Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture

Social Theory and the Global Environment (Global Environmental Change Series)

Sustainability: Critical Concepts

Sustainability: Critical Concepts

Sustainability:Cri Con Soc Sci

Sustainability: Critical Concpets

Development and the Environmental Crisis: Red or Green Alternatives

Development and the Environmental Crisis

Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste