real world, 6, 23, 49, 79, 81, 83, 85, 89, 110, 112–113, 116, 163, 188, 190, 196, 200, 228, 234, 243, 257

reductionism of science, 30

reference behaviour, 230–233, 236–237, 239

reform, 22, 26, 94, 115, 135–136, 164–166, 168, 178, 183, 259

research objective, 14, 252

research problem, 1, 5–6, 10, 13, 213, 250–252

resource economics, 23, 31–32

result, 9, 19, 33, 38, 45, 47, 49, 60, 62, 64, 74–75, 78, 83, 87, 90, 94, 96, 99, 104, 122–123, 134, 139, 142, 146, 148, 164, 168–169, 187, 197, 201–202, 210–212, 216, 219, 229–230, 232–233, 236–241, 243–245, 247, 253–254

rhetoric, 34, 64, 73, 76, 86–87, 90, 165, 178, 211, 257

Ricardo David, 21, 52

rural political economy, 165

rural population, 230–232, 236, 238

scale, 5, 19, 23, 26, 33, 36, 40, 46, 72, 90, 104, 107, 121, 125–126, 128, 132–133, 135, 160, 169–170, 173, 175–181, 207, 224, 237, 241, 246–247, 252, 258

sensitivity, 227–228

side effect, 20, 121

site-specific manifestation, 91

Smith Adam, 21, 52

social choice, 23

social equality, 27, 105, 135

spaceship earth, 3, 25

steady-state economics, 3

STELLA, 193–195, 213

strategic response, 59

substitution, 23, 126, 163, 187

sustainability, 3–14, 17–18, 20, 23–24, 26, 29, 31–34, 43, 50, 61–62, 66–69, 71–73, 80, 82, 84–86, 88, 91, 93, 95, 99–101, 103–104, 107–110, 112–116, 121, 123–129, 131–132, 134, 138, 141, 143, 149, 153–155, 158, 160, 162, 164–166, 172–175, 178, 180–183, 185–186, 189–190, 198, 202, 205–206, 211, 213–214, 220, 224, 233–234, 241, 244, 246–247, 249–259

sustainable

agricultural development, 4, 8, 13, 124, 130, 134, 143–148, 151, 154, 166, 169, 175, 177, 181, 185–186, 189, 207, 211, 220, 245–246, 255–256

agriculture, 4, 11, 118, 120–121, 124–128, 130, 141, 147, 160, 166, 246, 249

development, 2–6, 8, 11, 25, 28, 30–31, 33, 41, 43, 49, 53, 57, 59, 62, 66–67, 73, 83–87, 89–91, 94–95, 98–100, 105, 109, 112, 114–115, 117, 129, 131, 137, 143, 145, 147, 150, 154, 161, 164–165, 171, 177–178, 182, 191, 198, 205, 207–208, 214, 224, 245–246, 249–250, 252, 254, 257, 259

development strategy, 5, 43, 59

synthesis, 3, 11, 14, 18, 28, 30–32, 49, 51, 59, 138, 183, 185, 201–203, 206, 242, 249, 253, 255, 257