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Ecology and the Environment

Business and Economics
May 1998

SUSTAINABILITY-THE CHALLENGE

People, Power and the Environment

L. Anders Sandberg, Sverker Sörlin, editors

There are basically two paths to follow in the pursuit of sustainable development: one stresses government intervention and the development of regulations to ensure prudent resource use and minimum pollution levels, the other emphasizes voluntary measures and market incentives to steer business on a more sustainable path. Both these positions are criticized.

Any act that purports to be sustainable must not only promote environmental integrity and biodiversity, but also human equity. Presenting case studies from Canada and from Sweden, Sustainability The Challenge is primarily about finding alternatives.

Part one advances different theoretical perspectives on how to interpret environmental phenomena, and part two presents a comparative perspective on sustainable forestry and environmental issues. The final section examines environmentalism from the perspective of forestry, industrial
workers, bioregionalism, and First Nations communities.

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L. Anders Sandberg teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada. He is the editor of Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. His works on forest-related issues have appeared in many of the leading academic journals.

Sverker Sörlin is a professor of environmental history in the Department of the History of Science and Ideas at the Umeå University, Sweden. He is co-editor of Denationalizing Science: The Contexts of International Scientific Practice, and editor of The Road to Sustainability: A Historical Perspective.