This article reviews the work of several sets of researchers prominent in current debates
over how sustainability might be interpreted and achieved. The notion of 'sustainable …

Most approaches to the business of considering environmental sustainability have taken
either a definitional or a discursive form. Both these approaches have their limitations. Better …

'Sustainable development'is the catchphrase of the 1990s. Governments around the world,
international institutions, local organizations and NGOs have committed themselves to its …

Arturo Escobar examines the increasing number of conflicts over natural resources around
the world in response to neo-liberal globalization. He argues that such escalating …

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting
everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies …

Contends that effective biological conservation and social justice must go hand in hand.
How can the international conservation movement protect biological diversity, while at the …

The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to
urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the …

Las relaciones entre feminismo y ecología han crecido en importancia en los años
recientes. Este libro proporciona una introducción comprensiva al movimiento ecofeminista …

'Sustainable development'has become a dominant discourse for anything remotely
environmental in the 1990s. While the term originated in a specific historical context, its …

This article represents both a continuance and a reformulation of an ongoing project: a call
to sociology proper to “bring nature back in.” Moving beyond such earlier heuristics as …