By Michael Redclift
ISBN-10: 0415196175
ISBN-13: 9780415196178
ISBN-10: 0415196183
ISBN-13: 9780415196185
The concept that of sustainability is often considered in completely environmental phrases. Sustainability: lifestyles percentages and Livelihoods hyperlinks peoples livelihoods and lifestyles possibilities to the idea that of sustainability by means of analyzing the way social and financial strategies supplement and compound environmental switch. the most parts of sustainable improvement - well-being, monetary coverage, land use, ethics and schooling, in either the north and south, this ebook demonstrates the best way the existence possibilities of contributors either impact and are stricken by, their environments.Sustainability: existence probabilities and Livelihoods exhibits that the scope of sustainability pondering should be widened to embody public rules and reports in either built and constructing countries.By offering a comparative concentration, either spatially and temporally, the individuals display how the environmental matters of the northern built global are culturally translated into the south, usually into fast survival questions.
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A concern with land use, much of which originated in the United Kingdom, is also central to the process of planning; land use controls help promote and regulate both economic development and environmental protection. Increasingly, moreover, this model which places land use at the centre of the frame, is being used to buttress environmental management interventions at the international, and global, levels. In his chapter Philip Kivell reviews a number of aspects of urban form and process, all of which require consideration of ‘sustainability’; in one guise or another.
Sustainable livelihoods in historical perspective Part 2 takes the discussion of life chances and livelihoods in a different direction, by comparing historical evidence. It examines the evidence for the maintenance and reproduction of livelihoods in rural areas of England, and Canada, and examines the environmental impacts of this process in each of these anglophone geographical areas. Many of the issues raised in the first part of this book surface again, often in ways that force one to re-examine assumptions.
Economic development—Environmental aspects. 3. Economic development—Social aspects I. R. 9′26—dc21 99–29732 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) Page v Contents List of figures vii List of tables viii List of contributors ix 1 Introduction MICHAEL REDCLIFT 1 PART 1 The environment and public policy 15 2 Sustainability, knowledge, ethics and the law JOHN PROOFS AND DAVID WILKINSON 17 3 Environmental policy-making: what have economic analysis and the idea of sustainability got to offer?