Sustainability politics internationally: new perspectives on the environment-development nexus

Abstract

The relationship between environmental protection and development has been a much discussed and often contested topic at least since the UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. Since then, the international context has evolved significantly and both, new environmental concerns and new relations between different states have emerged, while important developmental questions such as poverty and inequality at multiple levels have not been solved and are increasingly intertwined with sustainability concerns. Although many current approaches, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, recognise the interconnections between such concerns and the responsibility of high-income countries to address them, important gaps in implementation persist and political power remains unequally distributed. At the same time, political, social and economic conditions vary significantly between different parts of the world with implications for sustainability politics. Drawing on studies in different regions around the world and diverse analytical perspectives, this panels seeks to shed new light on the multifaceted challenges of the environment – development nexus and sustainability politics in different political, social and economic contexts.

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