Visions of sustainability: an overview of radical conceptions of sustainability

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dc.contributor.authorCase, Michael Scoten
dc.contributor.committeechairLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRich, Richard C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWhite, Stephen K.en
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:45:49Zen
dc.date.adate2009-09-12en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:45:49Zen
dc.date.issued1993-05-05en
dc.date.rdate2009-09-12en
dc.date.sdate2009-09-12en
dc.description.abstractThe concept of sustainability has recently entered mainstream political, social and economic discourses. It has become, almost overnight, the politically correct, or ecologically correct, buzzword which may continue to define the environmental rhetoric of the 1990s. The concept of sustainability, as it currently exists in the conventional discourses, differs from its original radical conceptions. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the original conceptions of sustainability as presented within the steady state, simple living, and social ecology discourses. It is also the purpose of this thesis to examine possible explanations for the inconsistencies between the conventional and radical conceptions of sustainability and to suggest a possible future of the radical sustainability discourses.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentvii, 128 unnumbered leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-09122009-040443en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09122009-040443/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44762en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1993.C373.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 28871549en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1993.C373en
dc.subject.lcshEconomic development -- Environmental aspectsen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable developmenten
dc.titleVisions of sustainability: an overview of radical conceptions of sustainabilityen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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