Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of contributors
  • 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 Cuyana
  • Index