Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz and Eric Neumayer -- Ethics and sustainable development : an adaptive approach to environmental choice / Bryan G. Norton -- The capital approach to sustainability / Giovanni Ruta and Kirk Hamilton -- Sustainable development in ecological economics / Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh -- Ecological and social resilience / W. Neil Adger -- Benefit cost analysis and a safe minimum standard of conservation / Alan Randall -- Valuing the far-off future : discounting and its alternatives / Cameron Hepburn -- Population and sustainability / Geoffrey McNicoll -- Technological lock-in and the role of innovation / Timothy J. Foxon -- Distribution, sustainability and environmental policy / Geoffrey Heal and Bengt Kristrm̲ -- Environmental justice and sustainability / Julian Agyeman -- Vulnerability, poverty and sustaining well-being / W. Neil Adger and Alexandra Winkels -- The resource curse and sustainable development / Richard M. Auty -- -Structural change, poverty and natural resource degradation / Ramn̤ Lp̤ez -- - Eonomic growth and the environment / Matthew A. Cole -- Sustainable consumption / Tim Jackson -- Environmental and resource accounting / Glenn-Marie Lange -- Genuine saving as an indicator of sustainability -- / Kirk Hamilton and Katharine Bolt -- Measuring sustainable economic welfare / Clive Hamilton -- Environmental space, material flow analysis and ecological footprinting / Ian Moffatt -- Sustainable cities and local sustainability / Yvonne Rydin -- Sustainable agriculture / Clement A. Tisdell -- Corporate sustainability : accountability or impossible dream? / Rob Gray and Jan Bebbington -- International environmental cooperation : the role of political feasibility / Camilla Bretteville Foyn -- Trade and sustainable development / Kevin P. Gallagher -- The international politics of sustainable development / John Vogler -- Financing for sustainable development / David Pearce.