Download or read book Handbook on International Development and the Environment written by Benedicte Bull and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. Not only does it discuss the profound environmental and theoretical critique against ‘development’ as modernization and economic growth, but also how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject.