Timothy O'Riordan’s research while affiliated with University of East Anglia and other places

This book explores the knowledge base of the environmentalist movement which it argues, is no longer knowledge of opposition to the status quo of government and economic system, but is rather now the knowledge used by leaders of the economic system. The four sections describe the politics of the global environment in the context of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; the debate on sustainability and how it has become devalued by widening definitions and overuse; the role of the international economy in undermining global ecology; and prescriptive chapters on ecologically sustainable community development in Africa and South Asia. -N.Adger