Sustainable development and the nics: Cautionary tales for the South in the New World (Dis)Order

Devlin, John F.; Yap, Nonita T.

doi:10.1080/01436599408420363

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“…We have already considered the example of fair trade and ethical consumption, which can be pro-poor. Trade policies that link together low-consumption countries could help improve their competitiveness (168), but there are also other challenges and opportunities in globalization.…”

Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hamilton (170) has made similar suggestions in addressing the problems associated with too narrow a focus on economic growth. High-consumption countries need to provide low-consumption ones with opportunities for a fair share of the global resource wealth (168). Debt relief could help with expansion of domestic economies and growth in consumption (168).…”

Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…High-consumption countries need to provide low-consumption ones with opportunities for a fair share of the global resource wealth (168). Debt relief could help with expansion of domestic economies and growth in consumption (168). These and other macroeconomic policy approaches to more closely linking challenges posed by under-and overconsumption in a PCS deserve more exploration and critical attention.…”

Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems

Lebel

Lorek²

2008

Environment and Resources

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The pursuit of sustainability in particular places and sectors often unravels at the edges. Efforts to tackle environmental problems in one place shift them somewhere else or are overwhelmed by external changes in drivers. Gains in energy efficiency of appliances used in houses are offset by greater total numbers or compensating changes in patterns of use. Analytical perspectives and practical initiatives, which treat production and consumption jointly, are needed to complement experiences and efforts with sector-, place-, product-and consumer-oriented approaches. There is now a growing body of scholarship exploring a diverse range of initiatives and experiments aimed at enabling sustainable productionconsumption systems (PCSs). Different approaches make divergent assumptions about market institutions, government regulation, sociotechnical innovation, and actor partnerships. From this body of work flow useful insights for others who would engage, for example, in redesigning relationships around services rather than products or between third world producers and first world consumers in fair trade initiatives.

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Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Trade and Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems

Lebel

Lorek²

2008

Environment and Resources

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“…For instance, under the auspices of free trade and export opportunities, the expansion of banana production led to deforestation and excessive use of chemical fertilizers in Costa Rica; timber production caused deforestation and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources in Tanzania and Chile; and cassava and rubber production encouraged the elimination of virgin forests and the use of marginal lands in Thailand (Devlin and Yap, 1994;Reed, 1996;Bello, Cunningham and Rau, 1994). Export-led production also includes the mining and manufacturing sectors.…”

Section: The Liberalization Of Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

The Fate of Sustainable Development Under Neo-Liberal Regimes in Developing Countries

Haque¹

1999

International Political Science Review

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Due to an enhanced global environmental awareness reinforced by dramatic environmental events, international conferences on the environment and development, as well as academic research and publications, have increasingly shifted the developmental discourse toward the concept of “sustainable development.” In developing countries, however, the realization of the notion of sustainable development has come under challenge due to the emergence of neo-liberal regimes and their pro-market policies. The current article addresses the following issues in this context: the origin, meaning, and problems of sustainable development; the major features and policy orientations of neo-liberal regimes in developing countries; and the critical implications of neo-liberal policies for the environment and development. The article also offers some recommendations with a view to overcoming the contemporary challenges to sustainability and ensuring a more genuine and effective mode of sustainable development.

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