The Illusion of Progress

Unsustainable Development in International Law and Policy

By: Alexander Gillespie

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Paperback | 1 January 2001 | Edition Number 1

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Is 'sustainable development' a charade sold to an increasingly misled public? This book presents a wide-ranging, penetrating critique of sustainability and what it actually means. The author argues that despite the rhetoric of socially and environmentally sustainable development and the ever-increasing number of legislative environmental policies, the real issues such as consumption, population growth and equity are either sidestepped or manipulated in international policy and law. Analyzing the main areas of concern - economic growth, market structure, trade, aid, debt, security and sovereignty - he shows that the entire development structure and the underpinnings of the debate are leading down quite a different path to that intended by sustainability.

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List of acronyms and abbreviations	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Development	p. 1
The Idea of Development	p. 1
The Right to Development	p. 1
The Failure of the Conventional Development Process	p. 3
The Roots of Failure	p. 4
Sustainable Development	p. 5
The Idea of Social Development	p. 7
Components of Social Development	p. 7
The Future of Sustainable Development	p. 11
The Overall Problem	p. 14
Growth	p. 15
Growth, Technology and Progress	p. 15
The Left, the Right and the South	p. 16
Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in International Environmental Law and Policy	p. 18
The No-growth Position	p. 19
The Steady Economic State	p. 20
Crossing Environmental Thresholds	p. 21
Growth and the Environmental Nexus	p. 27
Consumption in International Environmental Law and Policy	p. 30
The Population Question in International Environmental Law and Policy	p. 32
Conclusion	p. 34
Markets	p. 36
Neo-economic Liberalism	p. 36
The Free Market and Environmental Protection	p. 38
Market Solutions to Environmental Problems	p. 40
The Limits of the Free Market	p. 47
The Importance of Property from the Perspective of Social Ecology	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 61
Trade	p. 63
The Free Trade Position	p. 63
The Rejection of Free Trade	p. 72
Externalities and Free Trade	p. 76
Conclusion	p. 95
Debt	p. 97
The Debt Crisis and Sustainable Development	p. 97
The Environmental Cost	p. 100
Attempts at Resolving the Debt Crisis	p. 102
Conclusion	p. 109
Aid	p. 111
International Financial Assistance	p. 111
Aid and International Environmental Law and Policy	p. 112
The Arguments for Aid in International Environmental Law and Policy	p. 113
Financial Assistance as a Catalyst for Success	p. 115
The Problems Associated with Aid	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 121
Peace	p. 123
Security	p. 123
Laying Down Arms	p. 126
Realism in a World without a Supra-sovereign	p. 132
Conclusion	p. 135
Sovereignty	p. 136
The Basis of International Law	p. 136
Sovereignty and International Environmental Law Issues	p. 137
Social Ecology and Sovereignty	p. 137
A Powerful International Environmental Body	p. 138
The Decline of the Nation State System	p. 139
International Environmental Law	p. 141
Interdependence, Pluralism and Realism	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 149
Notes and References	p. 153
Index	p. 239
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