Sustainability : life chances and livelihoods / edited by Michael Redclift.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Sustainability, knowledge, ethics and the law / John Proops and David Wilkinson -- Environmental policy-making / Paul Ekins -- Land use policy and sustainability / P.T. Kivell -- Environmental health and sustainability / K.T. Mason -- Population, food and agriculture in mid-nineteenth century England / A.D.M. Phillips -- Envisaging the frontier / Michael Redclift -- Exploring dimensions of sustainability in Nigeria / Elsbeth Robson -- Sustainability / Nicola Ansell -- Linking the past with the future / Caroline Sullivan.

Annotation The concept of sustainability is traditionally viewed in exclusively environmental terms. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods links peoples livelihoods and life chances to the concept of sustainability by examining the way in which social and economic processes complement and compound environmental change. Looking at the main ingredients of sustainable development - health, economic policy, land use, ethics and education, in both the north and south, this book demonstrates the way in which the life chances of individuals both effect and are affected by, their environments. Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods shows that the scope of sustainability thinking needs to be widened to embrace public policies and experiences in both developed and developing countries. By providing a comparative focus, both spatially and temporally, the contributors demonstrate how the environmental concerns of the northern developed world are culturally translated into the south, often into immediate survival questions.

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