Following the first edition's success, this fully updated and revised book continues to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to sustainability issues in the context of chemistry and chemical technology. Its prime objective is to equip young chemists (and others) to more fully appreciate, defend and promote the role that chemistry and its practitioners play in moving towards a society better able to control, manage and lessen its impact on the ecosphere. To do this, it is necessary to set the ideas, concepts, achievements and challenges of chemistry and its application in the context of its environmental impact, past, present and future, and the changes needed to bring about a more sustainable yet equitable world. Progress since 2010 is reflected by including the latest research and thinking, selected and discussed to concise the advances in a much wider setting - historical, scientific, technological, intellectual and societal. The treatment also examines the complexities and additional challenges arising from public and media attitudes to science and technology, associated controversies, and the difficulties in reconciling environmental protection and global development. While the book stresses the central importance of rigour in collecting and treating evidence and reason in decision-making to ensure that it meets the needs of an extensive community of students, it is broad in scope rather than deep. It is, therefore, appropriate for a wide audience, including all practising scientists and technologists.