Brief Summary
This book is a reading for the potential contributors to the forthcoming Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development. The issues examined include -
- Is eradication of poverty and intergenerational welfare part of the Sustainable Development (SD) approach?
- Is there a distinction between sustainability and SD?
- Are green taxes useful?
- Why do we need a World Environment Organization and what are its organizational prerequisites?
- What reforms are relevant at international and national levels?
Book Summary & Chapter Contents
Book Summary
This book is aimed at a broad readership and seeks to convey the synthesis of perspectives on the integration of environmental and economic development objectives. These perspectives are generally the foundations for the derivation of pragmatic public and other institutional policies.
The directions offered in this book are fairly robust and provide general guidance as well as specific actionable programs at international, regional, national and local levels of environmental governance. The book is expected to be of particular interest to Economists, Environmentalists, and Policy Makers.