Böcker av Terry Marsden

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.

Focuses on the social dimensions of food production, distribution and retailing, reinforcing the idea that British retailing can only maintain its position through political and social activities in state and market structures. The book then goes on to look at broader consumer issues.

Examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis and traces the relationships between three key sets of actors: private interests, such as the corporate retailers; public regulators, such as the EU directorates and UK agencies; and, consumer groups.

Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', the book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through case studies of the 'preserved', the 'contested' and the 'paternalistic' countryside.

The first of a five-volume series, "Restructuring Rural Areas", from the London Countryside Research Centre, this book aims to put the rural domain firmly on the agenda of social science enquiry.