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Rio +20 and The New Greed Economy

Submitted on the 15th of May 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
by Pat Mooney The 1992 Earth Summit produced a Book of Promises called Agenda 21 that included combating desertification, safeguarding forests, confronting climate change and...

‘Producing the Green Economy’: an innovative approach

Submitted on the 15th of May 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at theInstitute of Social Studies, and author of Development 55.1 ‘Greening the Economy’ describes the...

Cosmovisiones: Defensa de territorios, empoderamiento femenino e identidad indígena

Submitted on the 29th of March 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Como parte del Volumen 54 de su revista Development sobre ‘Sustentabilidad’ la Sociedad para el Desarrollo Internacional (SID) presenta este dossier en español que consta de una...

Greening the Economy: ‘Selling Nature to Save it’ is not a solution!

Submitted on the 20th of March 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
In this interview, Development author Kathleen McAfee talks about the problems connected to the use of market instruments applied to nature. In particular she discusses the...

Greening the Economy: Where has the social dimension gone?

Submitted on the 12th of March 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
On the occasion of the launch of Development 55.1 'Greening the economy',  Sarah Cook, Director of UNRISD, talks about the problems and limitations of the green economy, its lack...

Development 55.1 'Greening the economy' out now!

Submitted on the 9th of March 2012 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Is the challenge for Rio+20 to build the collective political will to respond to the current crises? Or is it to bring the social dimension back alongside the economic and...

DevelopmentPLUS: Conversation with Giuseppe De Marzo

Submitted on the 8th of December 2011 by DevelopmentPLUS.
For the launch of Development 54.4, a conversation with Giuseppe De Marzo, economist, activist and spokesperson for the association A Sud is presented below. He talks about  his...

Sustainability: Rethinking our commitments. DevelopmentPLUS Conversation IV

Submitted on the 24th of November 2011 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Please take a moment to join the conversation! The first round presented provocative critiques of sustainable development by Arturo Escobar, Jayati Ghosh, Jan Pronk and Nicola...

Sustainable Cities: Development issue 54.3 out now!

Submitted on the 8th of September 2011 by DevelopmentPLUS.
The new issue of Development volume 54 no 3 Sustainable Cities is on-line now for SID members and subscribers! This journal issue explores the tensions in urban spaces between the...

Sustainability: Looking for alternatives. DevelopmentPLUS conversation (III)

Submitted on the 19th of July 2011 by DevelopmentPLUS.
Take a moment to join in the conversation! The third set of authors in the DevelopmentPLUS tasters of volume 54 no 2 on Challenges to Sustainability reflect on some of the new...

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