The Transition to Sustainability The Politics of Agenda 21 in Europe

About this book

This book `details how all nations are repositioning their economies, their societies and their collective purpose to maintain all life on Earth, peacefully, healthily, equitably and with sufficient wealth to ensure that all are content in their survival.' From the Preface

Contents

The political economy of sustainability transition; the European Community and sustainable development; agenda 21 - the evolution of national sustainable development strategies; local agenda 21 and the sustainability transition; perspective evolutionary pathways for sustainable development; the US experience.

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Biography

Timothy O'Riordan is Associate Director of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia. Heather Voisey is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment at the University of East Anglia. Contributors Timothy O'Riordan, Heather Voisey, Nigel Haigh, Martin Hession, Richard Macrory, David Wilkinson, Clare Coffey, Christiane Beuermann, Bernhard Burdick, Liv Astrid Sverdrup, Teresa Ribeiro, Valdemar Rodrigues, Panos Fousekis, Joseph Lekakis