Description: This book offers an exhaustive overview of the different political, social, and intellectual circumstances that paved the way for the inception of sustainable development. It offers in-depth analyses of economic globalization, current society-environment relationships, and global trade.
Review Quotes: "Mohamed El-Kamel Bakari has made a thoughtful and powerful case for sustainability. He has also explained the difficulties--conceptual as well as practical--with making sustainability work in the current political, economic, and social environment. This is an important contribution." --Kenneth Weisbrode, Bilkent University