James Meadowcroft

Assessing Canada's performance in implementing sustainable development initiatives since the 1987 publication of Our Common Future

Assessing Canada's performance in implementing sustainable development initiatives since the 1987 publication of Our Common Future

Examines how governments in the developed industrial world have responded to the challenge of sustainable development. It shows that the concept has been integrated into governmental idiom in most jurisdictions and has become associated with changes to the management of environmental problems.

This book is concerned with the way in which the concept of the state was invoked in British political argument between 1880 and 1914. It central claim is that the decades bracketing the turn of the century witnessed a significant change in the prevailing terms of British political discourse - that the concept of the state, hitherto a relative stranger to British debate, emerged as a key component of the idiom in which critical reflection on politics was cast. James Meadowcroft surveys the ways in which the state was understood in this period, and also presents a detailed analysis of the conceptions of the state in the work of six prominent theorists: Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L T Hobhouse, J A Hobson and Ramsay MacDonald.