Published in the New Statesman, on 30th June 2003. The world is at war with terrorism, drugs, poverty, hunger, organised crime, intellectual property piracy and more besides. What these wars have in common is that we are losing them all. The best-known, and longest-fought, is the war on drugs. The […]
Sustainable development – a short history of a big idea
Published by Natural England (then English Nature) in June 2003. Sustainable development is a concept with a huge capacity to induce definitional constipation. Any discussion of it can be brought to an immediate halt by someone in the room asking for a definition. Few ever recover. There are now bibliographies […]