ABSTRACT
This paper adopts four linked themes. First, environmental science is now part of a larger environmental politics. This is even more the case as scientific analysis is shaped by the trust and support of policy providers and deliverers in the private and voluntary sectors. Geographers should neither be ashamed nor wary of entering into the political worlds of government, business and civil activism. These form the lifeblood of the success of scientific endeavour in any transition to sustainability.
