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Sustainable Development : Exploring the Contradictions - Michael Redclift

Sustainable Development

Exploring the Contradictions

By: Michael Redclift

Paperback | 18 June 1987 | Edition Number 1

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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.
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"Consider that the environment is a social construction and environmental change a product of the world-system evolving. Current paths of accumulation produce unacceptable costs, so sustainable development must be another path. . . . Any resolution of these contradictions will rethink not just the international economic structure but technology, social theory, and politics. This is an important contribution to a crucial debate." -"World Development

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