2001-2002: Sustainable Development: Mandate or Mantra?

Ward Chesworth, Michael R. Moss, Vernon G. Thomas, Editors

Sustainable development is the theme of the second annual series of Hammond Lectures presented at the University of Guelph. The Hammond Lectures - or to give them their full title - the Kenneth Hammond Lectures on Environment, Energy and Resources - are so-named in honour of a well-known local industrialist, Ken Hammond. Ken Hammond is known and respected far beyond the University and the City of Guelph for his life-long efforts to raise society's consciousness of the indivisible links between environment, energy and resources, and of our need to understand the limitations imposed on the future of humankind by our failure to recognize the finite nature of this relationship. A further goal in much of Ken Hammonds' efforts has been to bring this debate to as wide an audience as possible.

ISBN 0-88955-535-4

Table of Contents

Opening Remarks

Introduction: Clearing Away the Undergrowth
Ward Chesworth, Michael R. Moss and Vernon G. Thomas

Part 1 - The Lectures

Squaring the Circle?: On the Key Idea of Sustainable Development
John Robinson

The Politics of Sustainable Development
The Honorable Charles Caccia, M.P.

The Challenge of Abundance
Gordon Surgeoner

Ecological Footprints, Doublespeak, and the Evolution of the Machiavellian Mind
David Lavigne

Part 2 - Commentaries and Perspectives

Sustainable Development: Mandate or Mantra...Nature or Nurture?
Alan Wildeman

Sustainable Development: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
E. Ann Clark

Sustainable Development
Ronald J. Brooks

The End of History?
Ward Chesworth, Michael R. Moss and Vernon G. Thomas