Subject(s): Ecology, Dryland -- Sustainable development in Developing countries. -- Green movement in Developing countries. -- Dilemma of sustainability : Poverty, environment and development -- Origins of sustainable development : Environmentalism and emergence of sustainable development, global environmentalism, nature preservation, international environmental organization, ecology and balance of nature, ecology and tropical development, managerialism, ecological impacts of development, environmental limits population and global crisis, global science and sustainable development -- Development of sustainable development : Stockholm conference, world conservation strategy, integrating conservation and development, Brundtland report -- Sustainable development- making the mainstream : Rio conference, sustainable development at Rio, convention on biological diversity, climate change, Rio to Johannesburg, world summit on sustainable development -- Mainstream sustainable development : market environmentalism, corporations and sustainability, ecological modernization, environmental populism, environmental limits and the mainstream -- Delivering mainstream sustainable development : natural capital and sustainability, weal and strong sustainability, ecological economics, trade offs, equity and complexity, measuring sustainable economics, assessment of environmental and social impacts, sustainable projects, aid agencies and environmental policy -- Countercurrents in sustainable development : Green critiques of developmentalism, eco-socialism and sustainability, eco anarchism, eco feminism, political ecology -- Dryland political ecology : Political ecology of degradation, desertification and scientific imagination, science of desertification, neo-malthusian narratives, political ecology of famine, politics of desertification, policy, overpopulation and intensification -- Sustainable forests : Tropical deforestation, explaining forest loss, deforestation narratives, political ecology of deforestation, forest clearance and forest people, sustainable forestry, regulating tropical forests, timber certification -- Politics of preservation : Conservation and sustainability, protecting the wild, political ecology of parks, costs and benefits of conservation, global conservation -- Sustainability and river control : Rationality and environmental control, political ecology of resettlement, environmental impacts of dams, costs of water control -- Industrial and urban hazard : Development's environmental cost, urban political ecology, distribution of risk, trading hazards, metals, oil and environment, problems of pesticides, hazards of development -- Green development- Reformism or radicalism : Social movements and sustainability