The Condition of Sustainability explores the political economy of sustainable development and presents a new and powerful way of thinking about sustainable development as well as a methodology for applying these ideas.

Ian Drummond (Author), Terry Marsden (Author)

Introduction 1 Sustainable development: the impasse and beyond 2 Realism: questions of ontology-understanding the causality of the unsustainable 3 Regulation and the conditioning of the unsustainable: questions of theory and practice 4 International food systems: creating spaces for foods and nature 5 Sugar 6 The regulation of the Barbados sugar industry 7 The regulation and re-regulation of the Australian sugar industry 8 The condition of sustainable development