Table of Contents 
Acknowledgements 9
1. Food for thought: compatibility between sustainable development and liberal democracy 13 
2. OperationaUsing and accomplising a type-four compatibility analysis 49 
3. Determining compatibility criteria 71 
4. Sustainable development 113 
5. Challenges connected to physical resources and technological supply requirements 147 
6. Socio-economic challenges implied by scenario SD4 181 
7. Implied policies in scenario SD-4 217 
8. The type-four compatibility analysis: Compatibility between policies for sustainable development and liberal-democratic core values 237 
9. Sustainable development and liberal democracy: insights and conditions for compatibility 285 
Refererences 297 
Goteborg Studies in Politics 319