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The Invention of Sustainability

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

The Invention of Sustainability

By Paul (University of Cambridge) Warde

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About the book

The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This ground breaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demonstrates how sustainability was closely linked to hopes for growth, and the destiny of expanding European states, from the sixteenth century. Weaving together aspirations for power, for economic development and agricultural improvement, and ideas about forestry,...Show more

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9781107151147

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

The Invention of Sustainability

Format

Hardcover

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