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The North the South and the Environment
Ecological Constraints and the Global Economy •


Table of contents (276 p.)


 

EDITED BY
V BHASKAR AND ANDREW GLYN

First published in 1995 by
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Contents


Glossary

The contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Chapter one: Introduction

Chapter two: Environmental sustainability and the growth of GDP: conditions for compatibility

Chapter three: Northern growth and environmental constraints

Chapter four: Can the North stop consumption growth? Escaping the cycle of work and spend

Chapter five : Population growth and the environmental crisis: beyond the 'obvious'

Chapter six: Distributive justice and the control of global warming

Chapter seven: Enclosing the global commons: global environmental negotiations in a North-South conflictual approach

Chapter eight : Environmental policies and North-South trade: a selected survey of the issues

Chapter nine: The Korean model of development and its environmental implications

Chapter ten: National development and local environmental action - the case of the River Narmada

Chapter eleven: Economics and ecosystems: the case of Zimbabwean peasant households

Chapter twelve: Development after ecology


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