Acknowledgements. Introduction: Challenges for Quality of Life Studies in the New Millennium; Valerie M ller and Denis Huschka. Part 1: Learning from the past to inform the future. 1. South-Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow; John Kane-Berman. 2. Poverty and the quality of life: Learning from the South African research experience; Francis Wilson. 3. The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic - an analysis...