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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817878903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2000
• ISBN: 92-827-9471-7; 1-134-64452-3; 0-203-06690-1; 0-203-25946-7; 1-280-33041-4; 1-134-64453-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RedcliftM. R
• Disciplina: 338.9/26
• Soggetti: Sustainable development; Economic development - Environmental aspects; Economic development - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Introduction MICHAEL REDCLIFT; The environment and public policy; Sustainability, knowledge, ethics and the law JOHN PROOFS AND DAVID WILKINSON; Environmental policy-making: what have economic analysis and the idea of sustainability got to offer? PAUL EKINS; Land use policy and sustainability P.T.KIVELL; Environmental health and sustainability K.T.MASON; Historical perspectives on sustainable livelihoods; Population, food and agriculture in mid-nineteenth century England A.D.M.PHILLIPS; Envisaging the frontier: land settlement and life chances in Upper Canada MICHAEL REDCLIFTGeographical perspectives; the view from the South; Exploring dimensions of sustainability in Nigeria: a question of scale ELSBETH ROBSON; Sustainability: life chances and education in Southern Africa NICOLA ANSELL; Linking the past with the future: maintaining livelihood strategies for indigenous forest dwellers in Guyana CAROLINE SULLIVAN; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.Sust