Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

317 Pages·2008·2.33 MB·English

by  Jesse Dillard

Understanding the Social
Dimension of Sustainability
Routledge Studies in
Development and Society
1. Searching for Security 9. Environment and Development in
Women’s Responses to Economic the Straits of Malacca
Transformations Mark Cleary and Goh Kim Chuan
Edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth
10. Technical Knowledge and
2. The Life Region Development
The Social and Cultural Ecology of Observing Aid Projects and Processes
Sustainable Development Thomas Grammig
Edited by Per Råberg
11. World Bank and Urban
3. Dams as Aid Development
Anne Usher From Projects to Policy
Edward Ramsamy
4. Politics of Development
Cooperation 12 Poverty Orientated Agricultural
NGOs, Gender and Partnership and Rural Development
in Kenya Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen
Lisa Aubrey
13. Political Confl ict and
5. Psychology of Aid Development in East Asia and
A Motivational Perspective Latin America
Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe and Edited by Richard Boyd, Benno Galjart
Malcolm MacLachlan and Tak-Wing Ngo
6. Gender, Ethnicity and Place 14. Marine Natural Resources and
Women and Identity in Guyana Technological Development
Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz An Economic Analysis of the Wealth
from the Oceans
7. Housing and Finance in Marco Colazingari
Developing Countries
Edited by Kavita Datta and 15. Global Migration and
Gareth Jones Development
Edited by Ton van Naerssen,
8. Peasants and Religion Ernst Spaan, and Annelies Zoomers
A Socioeconomic Study of Dios
Olivorio and the Palma Sola Religion in 16. Children, Structure, and Agency
the Dominican Republic Realities Across the Developing World
Jan Lundius and Mats Lundahl G.K. Lieten
17. Understanding the Social
Dimension of Sustainability
Edited by Jesse Dillard,
Veronica Dujon, and Mary C. King

Understanding the Social
Dimension of Sustainability
Edited by Jesse Dillard,
Veronica Dujon, and Mary C. King
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Understanding the social dimension of sustainability / edited by Jesse Dillard, Veron-
ica Dujon and Mary C. King.
p. cm.—(Routledge studies in development and society ; 17)
Includes index.
1. Social capital (Sociology) 2. Environmental policy—Social aspects. 3. Sustain-
able development—Social aspects. I. Dillard, Jesse F. II. Dujon, Veronica. III. King,
Mary C.
HM708.U535 2008
304.2—dc22
2008004542
ISBN 0-203-89297-6 Master e-book ISBN
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To Rebecca, Cathy, Alice and James
To Ismael Antonio and Alejandra Sofi a
To Rosa Aiyana and Rio Valentine
With the hope that we’ve played some small part in making
the world a better place for them.

Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
1 Introduction 1
JESSE DILLARD, VERONICA DUJON, AND MARY C. KING
PART I
Overviews of the Field
2 Emergent Principles of Social Sustainability 15
KRISTEN MAGIS AND CRAIG SHINN
3 An Inquiry Into the Theoretical Basis of Sustainability:
Ten Propositions 45
GARY L. LARSEN
4 An Antidote to a Partial Economics of Sustainability 83
MARY C. KING
PART II
International Perspectives
5 Global Civil Society: Architect and Agent of International
Democracy and Sustainability 97
KRISTEN MAGIS
6 In the Absence of Affl uence: The Struggle for Social
Sustainability in the Third World 122
VERONICA DUJON