Sustainability and degradation in less developed countries : immolating the future?

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    • Lumley, Sarah

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Sustainability and degradation in less developed countries : immolating the future?

Sarah Lumley

Ashgate, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-207) and index

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Description

The concept of sustainable development has increasingly gained currency as a policy determination tool, yet its interpretation and application is widely contested, especially with respect to the role of economics in the facilitation of environmentally and socially sustainable outcomes. Sarah Lumley assesses some of the fundamental assumptions of mainstream economic theory as part of an analysis of farmers' motives in adopting soil conservation on degraded lands in the Philippines. The text has a strong focus on the theoretical and practical interactions between environmental, economic and social aspects of sustainable development; it is both multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary, and draws on conceptually important points of each discipline that it encompasses.

Table of Contents

  • Sustainable development and land degradation
  • A brief social and economic history of the Philippines
  • The Philippines and Leyte
  • The socio-economic survey
  • Interest and discounting
  • Preliminary data analysis
  • Analysis of the survey results
  • Implications of the results for theory and policy
  • Quo Vadis? - summary and conclusions.

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