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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