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Advocates of sustainable development envision a future that includes environmental protection, economic growth, and social progress. This compelling vision has inspired useful collaboration of government, industry, and civil society. But is sustainable development really sustainable? Despite acceptance of sustainable development as a goal, it remains a notoriously murky concept.
Full introduction to the chapter Go
Selections in this chapter: - World Commission on Environment and Development, from Our Common Future (1987), [142]Â Go
- Sharachchandra Lélé, from “Sustainable Development: A Critical Review” (1991), [144] Go
- Mathis Wackernagel and William E. Rees, from Our Ecological Footprint (1996), [152]Â Go
- J. C. Kumarappa, from “Standards of Living” in The Economy of Permanence (1945), [157] Go
- Joseph Tainter, from The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), [161]Â GoÂ
- John Clare, from “The Lament of Swordy Well” (1832–37), [166] Go
INTERCONNECTIONS--supplementary readings from other chapters of the anthology   - Keystone Essay: Gifford Pinchot, from “The Birth of Conservation” in Breaking New Ground (published posthumously, 1947), [13] Go
- The Bible, Genesis 1:20–31 (11), [364] Go
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Peter M. Vitousek et al., from “Human Domination of Earth’s Ecosystems” (1997) (11), [365] Go - Donald Worster, from “Thinking Like a River” in The Wealth of Nature (1993) (11), [381] Go
- Alfredo Sfeir-Younis and Andrew K. Dragun, from Land and Soil Management: Technology, Economics, and Institutions (1993) (12), [418] Go
- Richard Manning, from “The Oil We Eat” (2004) (12), [426] Go
- World Health Organization and UNICEF, from Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report (13), [483] Go
- Rodney R. White, from “Water Supply” in North, South and the Environmental Crisis (1993) (13), [486] Go
- Stephen Pacala and Robert Socolow, “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next Fifty Years with Current Technologies” (2004) (14), [507] Go
- Chief Seattle, from “Chief Seattle’s Speech” (reconstructed 1887 [1854]) (16), [571] Go
- Wendell Berry, “The Gift of Good Land” in The Gift of Good Land (1981) (16), [575] Go
- Aldo Leopold, from “The Land Ethic” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (17), [608] Go
- Leo Marx, from “Sleepy Hollow, 1844” in The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964) (19), [656] Go
- Henry David Thoreau, from “The Bean-Field” in Walden (1854) (20), [686] Go
- Aldo Leopold, from “Thinking Like a Mountain” in A Sand County Almanac (1949) (20), [689] Go
- Zygmunt J. B. Plater et al., “The Three Economies” in Environmental Law and Policy: Nature, Law, and Society (1998) (21), [727] Go
- All selections in Chapter 23, Economics, [774]Â Go
- Anup Shah, from Ecology and the Crisis of Overpopulation: Future Prospects for Global Sustainability (1998) (24), [811]Go
- Joel E. Cohen, from How Many People Can the Earth Support? (1995)Â (24), [827]Â Go
- Rigoberto Queme Chay, from “The Corn Men Have Not ForgottenTheir Ancient Gods” (1993) (25), [850] Go
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Pt I. Concepts & Case Studies 
