The Sustainable Development Paradox (Hardcover)

Introduction: Problematizing the Politics of Sustainability, Rob Krueger and David Gibbs1. Impossible “Sustainability” and the Postpolitical Condition, Erik Swyngedouw2. Sustaining Modernity, Modernizing Nature: The Environmental Crisis and the Survival of Capitalism, Roger Keil3. Microgeographies and Microruptures: The Politics of Gender in the Theory and Practice of Sustainability, Susan Buckingham4. Containing the Contradictions of Rapid Development?: New Economy Spaces and Sustainable Urban Development, David Gibbs and Rob Krueger5. Greening the Entrepreneurial City?: Looking for Spaces of Sustainability Politics in the Competitive City, Andrew E. G. Jonas and Aidan While6. Integrating Sustainabilities in a Context of Economic, Social, and Urban Change: The Case of Public Spaces in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona, Marc Pares and David Sauri7. Political Modernization and the Weakening of Sustainable Development in Britain, Anna Batchelor and Alan Patterson8. Spatial Policy, Sustainability, and State Restructuring: A Reassessment of Sustainable Community Building in England, Mike Raco9. The Spatial Politics of Conservation Planning, James P. Evans10. The Imperial Valley of California: Sustainability, Water, Agriculture, and Urban Growth, Stephanie Pincetl and Basil Katz