Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Published on: 1999-10-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
'Redclift's edited book is so poignant and free and tiresome jargon and ideological clutter, that it is a delightful and refreshing read. This book is highly recommended for all courses dealing with management of natural resources, particularly from the policy angle.' - Geographical Journal

From the Back Cover
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.

About the Author
Michael Redclift is a Professor of International Environmental Policy at Keele University.