Table of Contents

The Age of Sustainable Development

• Front Matter i2
• Table of Contents v6
• 1. Introduction to Sustainable Development 112
• • 1. Sustainable Development as an Analytical and Normative Concept 112
  • 2. An Introduction to Economic Growth 1425
  • 3. Continuing Poverty in the Midst of Plenty 2738
  • 4. Global Environmental Threats Caused by Economic Development 3445
  • 5. Pathways to Sustainable Development 4253
• 2. An Unequal World 4556
• • 1. Incomes Around the World 4556
  • 2. Urban/Rural Inequality 5061
  • 3. Income Inequality Within Countries 5566
  • 4. Measuring Well-Being 6071
  • 5. Convergence or Divergence? 6677
• 3. A Brief History of Economic Development 7182
• • 1. The Age of Modern Economic Growth 7182
  • 2. The Industrial Revolution Begins in England 7485
  • 3. The Great Waves of Technological Change 7990
  • 4. The Diffusion of Economic Growth 8697
  • 5. Economic Development Since World War II: The Making of Globalization 92103
• 4. Why Some Countries Developed While Others Stayed Poor 101112
• • 1. The Idea of Clinical Economics 101112
  • 2. A Further Look at Geography—Transport, Energy, Disease, Crops 109120
  • 3. The Role of Culture—Demography, Education, and Gender 121132
  • 4. The Role of Politics 129140
  • 5. Which Countries Are Still Stuck in Poverty? 135146
• 5. Ending Extreme Poverty 139150
• • 1. The Reasons to Believe That Extreme Poverty Can Be Ended 139150
  • 2. Strategies to End Extreme Poverty 149160
  • 3. South Asia—the Continuing Challenge of Food Supply 159170
  • 4. A Closer Look at Official Development Assistance 171182
  • 5. Designing Practical Interventions—the Case of the Millennium Villages 175186
• 6. Planetary Boundaries 181192
• • 1. Planetary Boundaries 182193
  • 2. Growth Dynamics 194205
  • 3. The Case of Energy 200211
  • 4. The Case of Food 204215
  • 5. Population Dynamics and Sustainable Development 208219
  • 6. Economic Growth Within Planetary Boundaries 214225
• 7. Social Inclusion 219230
• • 1. The Ethics of Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality 219230
  • 2. United Nations Declarations, Covenants, and the MDGs 228239
  • 3. Divided Societies 232243
  • 4. Forces of Widening Inequalities 239250
  • 5. Gender Inequality 244255
• 8. Education for All 251262
• • 1. Life Cycle Approach to Human Development 251262
  • 2. Early Childhood Development 256267
  • 3. The Rising Returns of Education and the Supply Response 263274
  • 4. Social Mobility 267278
  • 5. The Role of Higher Education in Technological Advance 271282
• 9. Health for All 275286
• • 1. Universal Health Coverage 275286
  • 2. Poverty and Disease 287298
  • 3. Designing and Financing Primary Health Systems in Low-Income Countries 295306
  • 4. Ten Recommended Steps to Health for All in the Poorest Countries 301312
  • 5. The Continuing Challenges of Health Coverage in the High-Income Countries 305316
• 10. Food Security 317328
• • 1. Sustainable Food Supply and the End of Hunger 317328
  • 2. Farm Systems, Ecology, and Food Security 327338
  • 3. How Environmental Change Threatens the Food System 334345
  • 4. How the Food System Threatens the Environment 338349
  • 5. Toward a Sustainable Global Food Supply 347358
• 11. Resilient Cities 355366
• • 1. The Patterns of Urbanization Around the World 355366
  • 2. What Makes a City Sustainable, Green, and Resilient? 366377
  • 3. Smart Infrastructure 369380
  • 4. Urban Resilience 378389
  • 5. Planning Sustainable Development 385396
• 12. Climate Change 393404
• • 1. The Basic Science of Climate Change 393404
  • 2. The Consequences of Human-Induced Climate Change 406417
  • 3. Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Limit Global Warming to Two Degrees Centigrade 414425
  • 4. Adaptation 433444
  • 5. The Politics of Carbon Dioxide Mitigation 440451
• 13. Saving Biodiversity and Protecting Ecosystem Services 447458
• • 1. What Is Biodiversity? 447458
  • 2. Biodiversity Under Threat 453464
  • 3. Oceans and Fisheries 459470
  • 4. Deforestation 469480
  • 5. International Dynamics 474485
• 14. Sustainable Development Goals 481492
• • 1. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 481492
  • 2. Goal-Based Development 489500
  • 3. Financing for Sustainable Development 496507
  • 4. Principles of Good Governance 502513
  • 5. Is Sustainable Development Feasible? 505516
• Bibliography 513524