Sustainability: Life Chances and Livelihoods [Hardcover]

Michael Redclift (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415196175 | ISBN-13: 978-0415196178 | Publication Date: December 2, 1999

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Redclift's edited book is so poignant and free and tiresome jargon and ideological clutter, that it is a delightful and refreshing read. This book is highly recommended for all courses dealing with management of natural resources, particularly from the policy angle.' - Geographical Journal

About the Author

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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Routledge (December 2, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415196175
• ISBN-13: 978-0415196178
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,057,494 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy in the Department of Geography, at King's College, University of London. His research interests include sustainable development, global environmental change, environmental security and the modern food system. Between 1973 and 1997 he was at Imperial College at Wye, ultimately as Professor of Environmental Sociology. In 1987 his book Sustainable Development: exploring the contradictions was published by Routledge. He was the first Director of the Global Environmental Change programme of the ESRC between 1990 and 1995, and has coordinated research grants for the European Commission (FM IV and V), and for the TERM programme of the European Science Foundation. He has also held grants from the ESRC/AHRC (2003-2005) and, in 2007, began research on a three year study (with Mark Pelling and David Manuel ) of coastal urbanisation and adaptation to climate change and environmental risks in the Mexican Caribbean. In 2006 he was the first recipient of the 'Frederick Buttel Award', from the International Sociological Association (RC 24). Recent books include: Chewing Gum: the fortunes of taste, (2004, Taylor and Francis, New York) and in 2006 completed a major comparative study for MIT Press: Frontiers: histories of civil societies and nature.