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The Long Road to Sustainability: The Past, Present, and Future of International Environmental Law and Policy

The Long Road to Sustainability: The Past, Present, and Future of International Environmental Law and Policy

Name: The Long Road to Sustainability: The Past, Present, and Future of International Environmental Law and Policy
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198819516
Price: 1513.20 HKD
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Author: Alexander Gillespie
ISBN: 9780198819516

By Alexander Gillespie

Oxford University Press February 2018

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ISBN-13: 9780198819516
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: February 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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For the last few thousand years, humanity has struggled to achieve sustainable development. Gillespie sees the problem as multi-faceted: a three legged stool of economic, social, and environmental conundrums have stalled the quest for the long term viability of both our species and the ecosystems in which we reside.

Gillespie moves from the low life expectancy, excessive deforestation, and wetland drainage of the medieval period, through the species loss, coal burning, free trade, and poor waste management of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and to the more recent concerns of climate change, unsustainable fisheries, and chemical pollutants. By delivering a comprehensive examination of human survival over the past millennium, Gillespie illustrates that the challenges we face are not new - that we now have the means to counter them, is.

1: Introduction

2: Prior to the Industrial Revolution

3: The Nineteenth Century

4: The First Half of the Twentieth Century

5: Between the Second World War and 1970

6: From 1970 to 1990

7: Nineteen Nineties

8: The Twenty-First Century: The Economic and Social Context

9: The Twenty-First Century: Environment

10: Conclusion

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