M. Redclift - Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods

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Sustainability

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 developmenthealth, 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 affect 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.

Michael Redclift was formerly Professor of International Environmental Policy at Keele University. He is now Professor of Human Geography and the Environment, Kings College, London University.

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Life chances and livelihoods

Edited by Michael Redclift

London and New York

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First published 2000

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

2000 selection and editorial matter, Michael Redclift; individual chapters, the contributors

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

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

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sustainable development. 2. Economic developmentEnvironmental aspects. 3. Economic developmentSocial aspects

I. Redclift, M.R.

HC79.E5S86654 1999

338.926dc21 9929732

ISBN 0-203-06690-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-25946-7 (OEB Format)

ISBN 0-415-19617-5 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-19618-3 (pbk)

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