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 Rethinking
Sustainability
Power,
Knowledge, and Institutions
Jonathan
Harris, Editor
This
volume is part of the series
Evolving Values for a Capitalist
World
Bringing
together the thoughts of economists, political scientists,
anthropologists, philosophers, and agricultural policy
professionals, this volume focuses on the issues of
sustainability in development. Examining such topics
as international trade, political power, gender roles,
legal institutions, and agricultural research, the contributors
focus on the missing links in theory and practice that
have been barriers to the achievement of truly sustainable
development.
Rethinking
Sustainability will be of interest to economists
and social scientists, development professionals, and
instructors seeking to offer their students a broad
perspective on development issues.
Table
of Contents
Rethinking
Sustainability moves the debate from efficiency
toward the distribution of power, from free markets
toward sharing common assets, from global generalities
toward local specifics, and from expert knowledge toward
shared learning. This rebalancing is sorely needed.
- Richard B. Norgaard, University of California at Berkeley
Rethinking
Sustainability is an impressive book, which
I recommend very highly. It offers a broad approach
to sustainability issues, and challenges many of the
presuppositions of mainstream economics. A range of
alternative approaches is explored by the contributors,
with stimulating analyses of the contribution to sustainability
studies of such issues as poverty, political power,
the cultural construction of the environment and landscape
change, as well as the more usual issues of trade and
development. This book will appeal to all who are interested
in sustainability, and will be especially welcome to
those seeking alternative perspectives. - John Proops,
Keele University
About the
Author Jonathan
M. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard University
and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He is co-editor
of the Frontier
Issues in Economic Thought series
- volumes: A Survey of Sustainable Development, A
Survey of Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being
and Economic Goals. He is also author of "World
Agriculture and the Environment"; and co-author
with Dr. Anne-Marie Codur of environmental teaching
modules in microeconomics and macroeconomics. He is
currently at work on a textbook, The Economic System
and the Environment. He is a Senior Research Associate
at GDAE, Program Director for GDAE's Theory and Education
Program, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of International
Economics at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy.
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