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Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. The Handbook discusses both the profound environmental and theoretical critique against development as modernization and economic growth, and how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject. Weighing up the successes and failures linked to environmental concerns in development and environment policy and practice, it recognizes the roots of international development as a Western project linked to the expansion of an environmentally destructive capitalism. Through active dialogue across geographical areas, disciplines and epistemologies, chapters critically assess current perspectives on the topic, including decolonialism, degrowth and post-development. Grounded in recent research on topics such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure, forest protection, supply chain management, climate negotiations and the renewable transition, the Handbook integrates a range of different viewpoints on international development and the environment to provide a fresh take on this contentious relationship. With an international scope, this expansive Handbook will be integral reading for students and scholars of development and the environment. It will also be a beneficial read for practitioners working in international organizations and development agencies.

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Contents: Preface xi 1 Introduction to Handbook on International Development and the Environment: from limits to growth to a transformation for the Anthropocene 1 Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen PART I RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT: CRITIQUE AND DEFENSE OF A CONTESTED IDEA 2 The sticky myth of economic growth and the critique of development 26 Eduardo Gudynas 3 Leaving development behind: the case for degrowth 41 Federico Demaria and Erik Gómez-Baggethun 4 Dismantling the machine: rethinking the role of technology in critical development theory 57 Alf Hornborg 5 Development under scrutiny: environment, geopolitics and a reimagination of Latin America 71 Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Gianfranco Selgas 6 A transformative post-developmental state? State institutions as change-makers in the Anthropocene 83 Benedicte Bull 7 A Chinese Communist Party perspective on development and the environment: socialism through environmental development? 100 Bjørn Leif Brauteseth PART II RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM INFINITE RESOURCE TO FRAGILE SUBJECT 8 The river as subject: legal innovations and their consequence for rights and development 122 John A. McNeish 9 Oceans: the new economic frontier? 137 Mads Barbesgaard 10 The Arctic: last frontier for energy and mineral exploitation? 154 Ragnhild Freng Dale and Lena Gross 11 The international development of food and agriculture: global food regimes, environmental change and new configurations of power 170 Jostein Jakobsen 12 Will development kill us? Globalized livestock production in the “Pandemic Era” 185 Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Jostein Jakobsen PART III RECONSIDERING DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE 13 Infrastructure, development and the environment in a landscape of spatial reconfigurations across the Global South: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative 200 Fabricio Rodríguez and Julia Gurol 14 The new middle classes: consumption, development and sustainability 216 Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Wethal 15 New energy transitions, old problems: the challenge of achieving a just electrification with a gendered face 231 Kirsten Campbell and Tanja Winther 16 The business of sustainability as a governance tool 250 Jason Miklian and John Katsos PART IV RECONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE 17 The challenges of effective international climate cooperation in an unequal world 267 Tora Skodvin 18 The sustainability governance of global supply chains: transnational approaches and the neglect of local development agendas 281 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor 19 Ecosystem services in development: frontier of green colonialism or tool for social justice? 296 Nicolena von Hedemann 20 Reclaiming state capacity in the politics of energy transitions: the cautionary tale of Venezuela’s predatory transition 313 Antulio Rosales Index 328

About the Author :
Edited by Benedicte Bull , Professor of Political Science and Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Professor of Human Geography, Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway


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  • ISBN-13: 9781800883772
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1800883773
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Elgar Handbooks in Development


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