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The chapter begins by examining a range of countries that seek to combine development and sustainability, drawing attention to the success cases of Costa Rica and Uruguay. It then looks more widely at the Latin American region, focusing on the role of environmental activism. Turning to Africa, the ‘green state’ is discussed and some of the region’s successful examples of combining development and sustainability. The focus then turns to some Asian countries, highlighting the region’s diversity, combining high levels of vulnerability with some developed countries pioneering ‘green growth’. The precarious situation of small island developing states (SIDS) is finally looked at and their contribution to global environmental diplomacy examined. The chapter ends by distilling the lessons of which political economy models are the most successful.
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Kirby, P., O’Mahony, T. (2018). Development and Sustainability in the Global South: Different Routes to Transition and a Sustainable Society. In: The Political Economy of the Low-Carbon Transition. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62554-6_7
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