Development and the environment: Managing the contradictions?
- 1 December 1993
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
- Vol. 6 (4) , 443-456
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.1993.9968371
Abstract
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) meeting in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 illustrated the enormous rift that has appeared between North and South. Not only is the agenda of the North different from that of the South, but the language, the discourse, is different. The paper, which was conceived as a contribution to the new discourse surrounding development and the environment explores the divergence between North and South in terms of the limited Northern perspective represented by ‘environmental managerialism’. The failure to grasp the global nature of environmental issues lies at the heart of the problem for radical scholarship. It is the central question to which, as sociologists, we should direct our energies.Keywords
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