Michael Redclift is Professor of International Environmental Policy at the Department of Geography, King's College London. He was previously Professor of International Environmental Policy at the University of Keele and before that Professor of Environmental Sociology at Wye College, University of London, and Director of the ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme. He is author and editor of numerous books, including "Sustainable Development: Exploring the Contradictions" (1987),, i>Social Theory and the Global Environment" (1994) and "Sustainability: Life Chances and Lifestyles" (1999).