editado por Arve Hansen, Ulrikke Wethal. -- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.

xv, 280 p.; 24 cm. -- (Routledge studies in sustainable development)

ISBN 978-0-415-74732-5.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: Introduction -- Emerging economies and challenges to sustainability -- The rise of the rest and the revenge of development: the emerging economies and shifts in development theory -- Making sense of sustainable development in a changing world -- Asia -- Miracles or uneven development? Asia in the contemporary world economy -- Ecological modernisation and dilemmas of sustainable development in China -- Between peasant utopia and neoliberal dreams: industrialisation and its discontents in emerging India -- The best of both worlds? The power and pitfalls of Vietnams development model -- Indonesia: neoliberal development in the context of descentralised patronage politics -- Latin America -- Latin America s decade of growth: progress and challenges for a sustainable development -- Brazil, land of the future? Conservative development strategy and the urban challenge -- Agricultural change in Argentina: impacts of the gene modified soybean revolution -- The paradoxes of Chilean economic development: growth, inequality, deindustrialisation and sustainability risks -- Mining, development and environmental sustainability in Peru -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Between emerging economies and protracted conflict: challenges to sustainability in Sub-Sahara Africa -- Pro-growth challenges to sustainability in South Africa -- Searching for sustainability in Mozambique s development strategy -- Botswana s developmental state: sustainability under threat? -- Ethiopia: rapid and green growth for all? -- Conclusion -- Global sustainability and the rise of the South: development patterns and emerging challenges.