He also adequately points out that most major doctrines, such as the Brundtland Report, speak of global ideology. This report, for example, refers to multilateral agreements regarding environmental controls and global economic development. This is further evidence of political control as a key steering device for sustainable development within any culture. States co-opt cultures while the world system engages indigenous economies. We call the result of this process development.
Development is therefore about control, of nature and of people.
To top of page. The reader sees that sustainable development is characterized by conflicts in decision making, of which the decisions have traditionally been made by outside political entities and rarely the governing body of the affected culture. Individual project members usually manage from a distance and are constantly competing from one-upmanship within their profession. Adams attributes the cause of this conflict as the mismanagement of geopolitical power over the rights of the individual as related to development and quality of life. To top of page.