ABSTRACT
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development. The authors present a deep analysis of the ways that industrial states – both developed and developing – are currently unsustainable and how economic and social welfare are related to the environment, to public health and safety, and to earning capacity and meaningful and rewarding employment. The authors offer multipurpose solutions to the sustainability challenge that integrate industrial development, employment, technology, environment, national and international law, trade, finance, and public and worker health and safety. The authors present a compelling wake-up call that warns of the collision course set between the current paths of continued growth and inevitable unsustainability in the world today.
Offering clear examples and real solutions, this textbook illustrates how the driving forces that are currently promoting unsustainability can be refocused and redesigned to reverse course and improve the state of the world. This book is essential reading for those teaching and studying sustainable development and the critical roles of the economy, employment, and the environment.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|132 pages
The multidimensional concept of sustainability
part II|241 pages
Economic development, globalization, and sustainability
chapter 4|70 pages
Globalization
part III|120 pages
Industrial policy and the role of the firm in pursuing sustainable development
part IV|112 pages
National, regional, and international efforts to advance health, safety, and the environment
chapter 9|49 pages
Regulatory regimes to protect health, safety, and the environment
part V|75 pages
International trade and energy
part VI|35 pages
Strategic policy design for sustainable transformations