GREEN DEVELOPMENT THEORY?: Environmentalism and sustainable development

Abstract

Sustainable development is identified as a realistic means of maximizing human benefit without threatening economic growth. Although zero growth was a major theme of environmentalism in the 1970s , it has been largely ignored in debates about sustainable development. This is entirely consistent with the existing economic paradigms of the industrialized North. (Adams 2007:89) - SD = Western discourse of industrialization and growth - green development