The Sustainable Development Paradox: Urban Political Economy in the United States and Europe

by Rob Krueger and David Gibbs

Book Overview

Sustainability--with its promise of economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental integrity--is hardly a controversial goal. Yet scholars have generally overlooked the ways that policies aimed at promoting "sustainability" at local, national, and global scales have been shaped and constrained by capitalist social relations. This thought-provoking book reexamines sustainability conceptually and as it actually exists on the ground, with a particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593854986
• ISBN13: 9781593854980
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Guilford Publications
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"