The Age of Interdependence : Varieties of Sustainability in the Low Countries during the Twentieth Century ; The Age of Interdependence: Varieties of Sustainability in the Low Countries during the Twentieth Century

Where has sustainability come from and how could it become such a popular idea? This special issue analyses the intersection between twentieth-century attempts to attune environmental, social and economic concerns in the Low Countries and the rise of ‘sustainable development’ from the 1980s onwards. The introduction to this issue first relates the articles to the international historiography on sustainability and elaborates their shared approach. Second, the varieties of sustainability practiced in Belgium, the Netherlands and Congo – as analysed in the contributions on forestry, breweries, pi... Mehr ...