Introductory Chapter: Soil Contamination and Alternatives for Sustainable Development

Infrastructure not only enhances socio-economic growth, but it is also an important drive of sustainable development. Infrastructure will remain a key ingredient for achieving all of Africa’s post-MDGs development agenda. For example, safe and accessible water supplies save time and prevent the spread of a range of serious diseases—including diarrhoea and cholera, leading causes of infant mortality and malnutrition. Reliable energy powers health and education services and boosts the productivity of small businesses. Good road networks provide links to global and local markets as well as enhancing access to producer and consumer services. ICTs democratize access to information thus strengthening governance and inclusion as well as reducing transport costs by allowing people to conduct transactions remotely. The Introductory Chapter summarizes the main arguments in the volume including highlighting issues of methods and any omissions.

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Introductory Chapter: Sustainable Development and Sediment Engineering

Sedimentation Engineering ◽

10.5772/intechopen.74683 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ata Amini

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development

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Introductory Chapter: Landscape Reclamation as a Key Factor for Sustainable Development

Landscape Reclamation - Rising From What's Left ◽

10.5772/intechopen.90229 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Luis Loures

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Key Factor

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Introduction

Governing the Rainforest ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190949389.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-35

Author(s):

Eve Z. Bratman

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Civil Society ◽

Environmental Protection ◽

Environmental Governance ◽

Well Being ◽

Brazilian Amazon ◽

Theoretical Context ◽

Central Argument

The introductory chapter highlights the significance of studying sustainable development, introducing it as a concept that significantly marks approaches to environmental protection, economic growth, and social well-being in the present day. It highlights the main arguments of the entire book, which is first that sustainable development should be thought of as an ongoing set of processes that involve embroilments, rather than a point of balanced stasis where a particular goal has been reached. Centrally, the central argument of this book is that with few exceptions, sustainable development ultimately serves to reproduce and reinforce existing inequalities and yields highly uneven social and environmental results. The socio-natures of Amazonian realities show how injections of capital and state influence produce disproportionately consolidates the power of capital and the state, even as they are contested by members of civil society. The chapter situates the research presented in the book in theoretical context, building upon notions of socio-nature from the field of geography, and drawing upon environmental governance literatures in anthropology and political science to lay the foundations for interrogating sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Introduction

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795650.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

International Economic ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Economic Law ◽

International Economic Law

An introductory chapter to the book discussing the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises and the challenges posed by SMEs for international economic law. It discusses sustainable development in this context and the adjustments made by international economic law to cope with the internationalization of SMEs.

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