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Sustainable development brings together a series of normative themes related to negotiating environmental limits, to addressing equity, needs and development, and to the process of transformation and transition. To mark the 30th Anniversary of Our Common Future (1987), that first placed sustainable development on the global agenda, the editors have brought together a group of international scholars from a range of social science backgrounds. They have discussed these same themes – looking backwards in terms of what has been achieved, assessing the current situation with respect to sustainable development, and looking forwards to identify the key elements of the future agenda. This book presents a series of critical reflections on these enduring themes. The overriding concern is with the present and with the future as the editors seek to explore the question: What next for sustainable development?

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`Is sustainable development everything or something ? This edited volume makes a very important contribution to the discourse on critically analysing the content, process and outcomes of sustainable development politics and policies; a discourse very different from the United Nations sponsored program for promoting sustainable development, which has been seriously stymied and diluted at the international and national levels of implementation.' -- Carlo Aall, Western Norway Research Institute, and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway `So much has been written about sustainable development that it is hard to imagine anything new. Yet here it is. The authors offer fresh insights and new perspectives on all the key issues - from limits and equity to politics and growth - in assessing sustainable development on its 30th anniversary.' -- Daniel J. Fiorino, American University, US `An overview of the progress made towards sustainable development since the publication of Our Common Future is timely, and a focus on the considerable challenges still to be met that have arisen over the last thirty years is vital. This book achieves both goals and provides a valuable resource for students and researchers.' -- Delyse Springett, co-editor of Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development (2015)

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Edited by James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies, School of Geography and the Environment and Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK, Erling Holden, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Oluf Langhelle, University of Stavanger, Kristin Linnerud and Geoffrey Gilpin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

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