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Western Australia's short-lived ‘sustainability revolution’
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Western Australia's short-lived ‘sustainability revolution’

M. Brueckner and C. Pforr
Environmental Politics, Vol.20(4), pp.585-589
2011
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Abstract

Successive governments in Western Australia (WA), and in Australia as a whole, have traditionally pursued economic development. In 2001, however, the Labor Party came into office with a professed commitment to sustainable development and seemed to promise a departure from, and alternative to, economic developmentalism. However, despite a series of government initiatives, the initial euphoria dissipated, the government failed to deliver a lasting break with the developmentalist policy agenda, and the state returned to its traditional path of resource-based economic expansion. The dramatic rise and fall of sustainability in WA is addressed here.

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#11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
#13 Climate Action
#14 Life Below Water
#15 Life on Land

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