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This important book explores the relationship between changes in the environment of the Southern Hemisphere, and the wider economic and political context of North/South relations. The text also looks at whether the agenda of the 1992 Earth Summit can have a practical application in policy terms, and discusses the trade-off between economic goals and mechanisms, and their effects on the environment. A useful guide to this complex issue.
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Sustainable Development : Economics and the Environment; Population, Consumption and Sustainable Development; Recent Philippine Political Economy and the Sustainable Development Paradigm; Land Degradation and Society in Northern Ghana; Local Environmental Knowledge: Agriculture Development and Livelihood Sustainability in Mexico; Coca, Development and the Environment in Bolivia.
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