Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability Routledge Studies in Development and Society 1. Searching for Security 9. Environment and Development in Women’s Responses to Economic the Straits of Malacca Transformations Mark Cleary and Goh Kim Chuan Edited by Isa Baud and Ines Smyth 10. Technical Knowledge and 2. The Life Region Development The Social and Cultural Ecology of Observing Aid Projects and Processes Sustainable Development Thomas Grammig Edited by Per Råberg 11. World Bank and Urban 3. Dams as Aid Development Anne Usher From Projects to Policy Edward Ramsamy 4. Politics of Development Cooperation 12 Poverty Orientated Agricultural NGOs, Gender and Partnership and Rural Development in Kenya Hartmut Brandt and Uwe Otzen Lisa Aubrey 13. Political Confl ict and 5. Psychology of Aid Development in East Asia and A Motivational Perspective Latin America Stuart Carr, Eilish McAuliffe and Edited by Richard Boyd, Benno Galjart Malcolm MacLachlan and Tak-Wing Ngo 6. Gender, Ethnicity and Place 14. Marine Natural Resources and Women and Identity in Guyana Technological Development Linda Peake and D. Alissa Trotz An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans 7. Housing and Finance in Marco Colazingari Developing Countries Edited by Kavita Datta and 15. Global Migration and Gareth Jones Development Edited by Ton van Naerssen, 8. Peasants and Religion Ernst Spaan, and Annelies Zoomers A Socioeconomic Study of Dios Olivorio and the Palma Sola Religion in 16. Children, Structure, and Agency the Dominican Republic Realities Across the Developing World Jan Lundius and Mats Lundahl G.K. Lieten 17. Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, and Mary C. King Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, and Mary C. King New York London First published 2009 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2009 Taylor & Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Understanding the social dimension of sustainability / edited by Jesse Dillard, Veron- ica Dujon and Mary C. King. p. cm.—(Routledge studies in development and society ; 17) Includes index. 1. Social capital (Sociology) 2. Environmental policy—Social aspects. 3. Sustain- able development—Social aspects. I. Dillard, Jesse F. II. Dujon, Veronica. III. King, Mary C. HM708.U535 2008 304.2—dc22 2008004542 ISBN 0-203-89297-6 Master e-book ISBN ISBN10: 0-415-96465-2 (hbk) ISBN10: 0-203-89297-6 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-0-415-96465-4 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-89297-8 (ebk) To Rebecca, Cathy, Alice and James To Ismael Antonio and Alejandra Sofi a To Rosa Aiyana and Rio Valentine With the hope that we’ve played some small part in making the world a better place for them. Contents List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 JESSE DILLARD, VERONICA DUJON, AND MARY C. KING PART I Overviews of the Field 2 Emergent Principles of Social Sustainability 15 KRISTEN MAGIS AND CRAIG SHINN 3 An Inquiry Into the Theoretical Basis of Sustainability: Ten Propositions 45 GARY L. LARSEN 4 An Antidote to a Partial Economics of Sustainability 83 MARY C. KING PART II International Perspectives 5 Global Civil Society: Architect and Agent of International Democracy and Sustainability 97 KRISTEN MAGIS 6 In the Absence of Affl uence: The Struggle for Social Sustainability in the Third World 122 VERONICA DUJON
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