1. Food and Energy 2. Sustainable, Equitable Economics 3. The Personal Energy Budget Hans-Peter Darr 4. Understanding Biofuel Dynamics in Developing Countries The Need for the Local Context Omar Masera and Priya Deshingkar 5. The Value of Indigenous Knowledge The Case of Water and Soil Conservation Ecosystems in Sri Lanka D L 0 Mendis II Politics and Society 6. The Roots of Unsustainability Colonization in Space and Time Franck Amalric and Tariq Banuri Building a Sustainable Food System Anne H Ehrlich Energy Constraints on Sustainable Development Paths Wouter Biesiot and Henk Mulder 7. People's Empowerment: A Condition for a Sustainable, Equitable and Liveable World? Grazia Borrini Feyerabend 8. Improving Health: A Key Factor in Sustainable Development Andrew Haines 9. The Relevance of Military Expenditures to Sustainable and Equitable Development Samuel E Okoye 10. The Power Politics of Sustainability, Equity and Liveability Jaap de Wilde 11. Can Sodeties be Changed Quickly Enough? Robert A Hinde 12. Summary and Recommendations Philip B Smith and Samuel E Okoye Index

Commissioned by the Pugwash Council - a society founded by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell to debate threats to world peace - this volume of essays describes current problems of world instability due to resource exploitation, environmental decay and economic imbalance.