A central issue in the context of the environment is that of its sustainability. This presumes the development of an index that encapsulates both the current state of the environment as well as its potential to provide support for future human activity. Once the broad contours are accepted the...

This paper argues that the notion of sustainability as used in the extant literature is incomplete because of two reasons: (i) a neglect of the spatial dimensions of sustainability and (ii) the absence of a link between sustainability on the one hand and change in behavior on the other. This...