Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective

• I Perspectives On Sustainability.- 1. Our Common Future and Beyond: Interpretations of Sustainable Development.- 2. The Global and the Local.- 3. Designing Resource Systems for Sustainability: Safe-Fail versus Fail-Safe Strategiesl.- 4. Local Models, Global Change: Community Impacts and Sustainability Visions.- II Instruments Of Understanding.- 5. The Emergence of an Ecological Economics Paradigm: Examples from Fisheries and Aquaculture.- 6. On Designing Socio-Ecological Indicators.- 7. Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Economy: The Perspective of an Economist.- 8. Economic and Environmental Policies for Sustainability.- 9. GIS for the Territorial Concern: Supporting Local Sustainable Development with Modern Information Technology.- III The Shaping Of Minds.- 10. Woodland Polyphony.- 11. Towards Drastic Societal Changes: Historical Experiences about the Pace in which Societies Can Turn.- 12. The Role of Organizations in the Establishment of Ecological Consensus in Industrialized Countries.- 13. Conceptions of Future Threats and Developments: Psychological Starting Points and Educational Possibilities.- 14. The Interplay of Research and Politics: The Case of Antarctica.- IV Concluding Remarks.- 15. The Challenge of the Societal Dimension to Environmental Issues: A Swedish Research Response.- Notes on the Contributors.

' The book, an outcome of the effort of a transdisciplinary team of Swedish researchers is a welcome contribution to the global debate on sustainable development. The book will be of immense value to scholars, administrators, policy makers and NGOs. ' Tropical Ecology, Vol.34 No.2, 1993