The Politics of Sustainable Development
Subtitle: Theory, Policy, and Practice within the European Union (Global Environmental Change Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 29, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415138741
First sentence: Sustainable development is a political fudge: a convenient form of words, promoted, though not invented, by the Brundtland Commission, which is sufficiently vague to allow conflicting parties, factions and interests to adhere to it without losing credibility.