Beyond Rio: The Environmental Crisis and Sustainable Livelihoods in the Third World

by Iftikhar Ahmed (Editor), Jacobus A. Doeleman (Editor)

The 12 contributions to this volume provide strategies for arresting the relentless destruction of sustainable livelihoods particularly afflicting indigenous and tribal people, emphasizing the feasibility of preventing environmental degradation while creating extra jobs, a crucial requirement for future sustainability. The volume includes discussion of conceptual approaches, seven empirical studies, and a concluding policy synthesis. Most of the contributors are environmental economists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

390 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1995