Society And The Environment: A Swedish Research Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Perspectives on Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Our Common Future and Beyond: Interpretations of Sustainable Development

      • Per Brinck

      Pages 3-12

   3. The Global and the Local

      • Torsten Hägerstrand

      Pages 13-21

   4. Designing Resource Systems for Sustainability: Safe-Fail versus Fail-Safe Strategies

      • Bo L. B. Wiman

      Pages 23-45

   5. Local Models, Global Change: Community Impacts and Sustainability Visions

      • Anders Hjort af Ornäs

      Pages 47-65

3. Instruments of Understanding

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. The Emergence of an Ecological Economics Paradigm: Examples from Fisheries and Aquaculture

      • Carl Folke, Ann Mari Jansson

      Pages 69-87

   3. On Designing Socio-Ecological Indicators

      • John Holmberg, Sten Karlsson

      Pages 89-106

   4. Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Economy: The Perspective of an Economist

      • Lena Unemo

      Pages 107-120

   5. Economic and Environmental Policies for Sustainability

      • Thomas Sterner

      Pages 121-150

   6. GIS for the Territorial Concern: Supporting Local Sustainable Development with Modern Information Technology

      • Erik Wallin

      Pages 151-173

4. The Shaping of Minds

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. Woodland Polyphony

      • Anne Buttimer

      Pages 177-198

   3. Towards Drastic Societal Changes: Historical Experiences about the Pace in which Societies Can Turn

      • Per Olof Hallin, Olof Wärneryd

      Pages 199-211

   4. The Role of Organizations in the Establishment of Ecological Consensus in Industrialized Countries

      • Detlef Jahn

      Pages 213-228

   5. Conceptions of Future Threats and Developments: Psychological Starting Points and Educational Possibilities

      • Åke Bjerstedt

      Pages 229-254

   6. The Interplay of Research and Politics: The Case of Antarctica

      • Aant Elzinga

      Pages 257-283

5. Concluding Remarks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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   2. The Challenge of the Societal Dimension to Environmental Issues: A Swedish Research Response

      • Uno Svedin

      Pages 287-311

Following the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN).
With its fifteen essays by Swedish scholars on different aspects of society -- environment interface, giving various analyses of and prospects for the concept of sustainable development -- this book is a result of those efforts. The authors represent a spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches in the field of ecology, economy and environment. They are economists, ecologists, engineers, anthropologists, physicists, geographers, political scientists, science theorists and educationalists discussing sustainable development and the future of society and the environment.
The question is also raised whether there is a special Swedisch `touch' -- with a `responsibility for the world' ethos -- to the approach to environmental issues, especially as seen through the efforts of the research community.

• Ordination
• Seen
• Sustainable Development
• development
• ecology
• environment
• organization
• sustainable economy

` 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

• Swedish Council for the Planning and Coordination of Research, Stockholm, Sweden

  Uno Svedin

• Miljö & Vetenskap Ani HB, Uppsala, Sweden

  Britt Hägerhäll Aniansson

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