Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods / Edition 1

by Michael Redclift

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415196185
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/14/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1 Introduction PART 1 The environment and public policy 2 Sustainability, knowledge, ethics and the law 3 Environmental policy-making: what have economic analysis and the idea of sustainability got to offer? 4 Land use policy and sustainability 5 Environmental health and sustainability PART 2 Historical perspectives on sustainable livelihoods 6 Population, food and agriculture in mid-nineteenth century England 7 Envisaging the frontier: land settlement and life chances in Upper Canada PART 3 Geographical perspectives—the view from the South 8 Exploring dimensions of sustainability in Nigeria: a question of scale 9 Sustainability: life chances and education in Southern Africa 10 Linking the past with the future: maintaining livelihood strategies for indigenous forest dwellers in Guyana