POL469H1 Lecture Notes - Amartya Sen, Environmental Degradation, Sustainable Development
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Leslie campbell ta: office hours thursdays 1-2 pm in sw517. It is an evolving term, started as economic growth, then continued to human development, and arrived at sustainable development. Economic development: rose out of ww2 based on capital and growth with gdp as indicator of development. As an opposition to communism; push for economic growth. The limits to growth (1972): consequence of a rapidly growing world pop. And finite resource supply five variables were discussed; world pop. , industrialization, pollution, food production and here. Sustainable development: brundtland commission 1987 un report our common future , conservation and development could be compatible. There were three main goals; economic growth, environmental protection and health and happiness of people. Sachs (1993) says sustainable development has attracted such a large following because; capitalism and ecology no longer at opposition, the limits to growth becomehere. Lee paper*: looks at macro level trade-offs, the kuznet curve first proposed for economics then brought into environment.
