Sustainable Development - An Integrative Paradigm?: A Transatlantic View on Politics, Economy and Society

Policy makers across the globe, and especially within the transatlantic arena, are faced with an enormous challenge the sustainability challenge. Building upon the growing presence of sustainability as a topic in natural science and ecological movements, this volume reports the results of the first of two transatlantic symposia sponsored and organized by The ASKO EUROPA STIFTUNG and Texas A&M University in 2008 2009 addressing the topic from political and economic perspectives constraining and influencing sustainable development. The eight principal papers contained within this volume, representing several academic disciplines and employing a variety of methodological and ontological approaches, consider what decision makers mean by sustainable development, whether there are national, European, and American paradigms directing strategies of dealing with sustainable development, and, what is the political and economic reality of sustainability? To address these general issues, the