Sustainability: Life Chances and LivelihoodsM. R. Redclift 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
The environment and public policy | 15 |
Sustainability knowledge ethics and the law | 17 |
Environmental policy making What have economic analysis and the idea of sustainability got to offer? | 35 |
Land use policy and sustainability | 58 |
Environmental health and sustainability | 75 |
Historical perspectives on sustainable livelihoods | 93 |
Population food and agriculture in midnineteenth century England | 95 |
Envisaging the frontier Land settlement and life chances in Upper Canada | 106 |
Geographical perspectives the view from the South | 121 |
Exploring dimensions of sustainability in Nigeria A question of scale | 123 |
Sustainability Life chances and education in Southern Africa | 144 |
Linking the past with the future Maintaining livelihood strategies for indigenous forest dwellers in Guyana | 158 |
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Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice Damian Maye,Lewis Holloway,Moya Kneafsey No preview available - 2007 |