Sustainability - A Matter of Choice

Sustainability - A Matter of Choice



Contents


What Is Sustainability?

The dilemma of the Iban hunter

Impacts on the Environment

Gumming up the works
The consequences of our actions

A Throw-Away Culture

Waste

Who Pays the Cost?

International consumption and trade
The limitations of economic planning
Unsustainable development

The Way Ahead

Involving women
Sowing the seeds of hope
The Deja shoe

Living Sustainably

An urban ecological revolution
Knowing what the natural world is worth
A matter of choice



Many WWF projects around the world focus on the sustainable use of natural resources. For details, contact the Programme Services and Evaluation Department, WWF International.

Written by Christina Yin with grateful thanks to Kevin Lyonette and Fulai Sheng for their comments. Any inaccuracies remain the responsibility of the author.


Published July 1995 by WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature, CH-1196, Gland, Switzerland.
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Copyright 1996, The World Wide Fund For Nature