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.

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 Guyana

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