This book provides the multidimensional concept of sustainability especially in developing countries, which is lied underneath at the core of the challenge of conservation and economic growth, and the multifaceted perspectives of government leaders, business stakeholders and environmentalists respond to it. However, the terms of green development have been used for providing the valuable dimensions of ecological components in the sustainable development as a clear and coherent in both theory and practice. For the third edition of this book, the content structures retained the structure of previous editions, which have changed for updating the information and case studies to reflect advances in critical thinking ways to respond the changes in international policy. The great highlight of this book also pay attention to the linkage of green development and political ecology, which included the explanation of causes and consequences environmental risk and environment impacts. This book is also fully revised edition in content of each chapter, which included prudent discussion in individual case study. Chapter 1 and 2 provides an inclusive explanation of the origins of sustainability terminology, way of thinking, multidimensional concepts. These two chapters also presents the interesting discourse of sustainable development as well as provides the discussion on the challenge of poverty and environmental change to the present day and upcoming future. Chapter 3 provides explanation of sustainable development before the mainstream of the Stockholm Conference, including the world conservation strategy along with the integrating conservation and development with regards to the Brundtland Report. Chapter 3 and 4 presents the discussion of the different angles of ideas to explain the dominant mainstream of sustainable development at Rio including the summary of the convention on biological diversity and the framework convention on climate change, by respectively. And, following by Chapter 5, this chapter provides the ideas of ecological modernisation, market environmentalism and environmental economics with the different case studies and good dialogue of discussions in the past, current and possibly future trends. Chapter 6 focuses on the revision of sustainability and then explains this term relating to natural capital, ecological economics, trade-off, equity. Complexity and how we can measure the sustainable economies, or it is just an ideological thinking. For the further chapters, chapter 7 provides the ideas of the countercurrents of sustainable development in relation to the nature and diversity of challenges as so-called ‘business as usual’ thinking such as the paradigm of eco-socialism, eco-feminism, deep ecology and political ecology. In respectively, Chapter 8 and 9 writes about the dilemmas of sustainability in the evolving context of dryland degradation, deforestation, biodiversity conservation, dam construction, urban and industrial development. Chapter 10 provides the explanation of the politics of preservation with regards to the conservation and sustainability in the protected areas such as national parks. This chapter also highlights the political ecology of parks with respects to the costs and benefits of conservation, including the linkages between conservation and sustainable development. Chapter 11 and 12 uses the terminology of sustainability to provides the explanation the strategic ways to protect river as well as to control industrial and urban hazard. However, the nature of policy choices about the environment and development strategies sometimes lies between controversy of benefits and conservation purposes, and between reformist and radical responses to the current and future global dilemmas. In the last chapter, Chapter 13 offers the clear insight of green development into the challenges of environmental sustainability, and socio-economic development in various perspectives of coping strategies. The last chapter is unique in offering the integration of multidimensional concept of sustainability and pay attention to cover the wide-ranging literature reviews on environment and development around the world. Consequently, this book is a valuable book to generations of students and environmental researchers as an authoritative as well as who works in the field of conservation and all interesting people, which will be provided the thought-provoking and readable guide to the field of sustainable development in long term