ABSTRACT
The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth. Understanding this global shift and its impact on the environment is the paramount contemporary challenge for development-oriented researchers and policy makers alike. This book breaks new ground by combining scholarship on the role of emerging economies with research on sustainable development.
The book investigates how the development strategies of emerging economies challenge traditional development theory and sustainability discourses. With regional introductions and original case studies from South Asia, East Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, it discusses how to conceptualise sustainable development in the global race for economic prosperity. What characterises the development strategies of emerging economies, and what challenges are these posing for global sustainable development? How can emerging economies shed light on the global challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the relationship between socio-economic improvements and environmental degradation?
This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduates in development studies, geography, economics and environmental studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|50 pages
Introduction
chapter 2|15 pages
The ‘rise of the rest' and the revenge of ‘development'
part II|68 pages
Asia
chapter 6|13 pages
Between peasant utopia and neoliberal dreams
chapter 8|14 pages
Indonesia
part III|69 pages
Latin America
chapter 9|12 pages
Latin America's decade of growth
chapter 10|14 pages
Brazil, land of the future?
chapter 12|15 pages
The paradoxes of Chilean economic development
part IV|69 pages
Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter 14|11 pages
Between emerging economies and protracted conflict
part V|13 pages
Conclusion