European Research on Sustainable Development MEng. F. Lucka are supported by environmental groups van Oystaeyen are supported by environmental groups and are generally op posed or viewed with skepticism by agriculturalists Readership : Researchers in earthquake engineering The contributions are written by leading world experts in the conceptualisation and actual practice of sustainable development Its emphasis lies on the transformative dimension of this research: sustainable development can only be realized through a far reaching transformation of the situation humankind finds itself in at the beginning of the third millennium