The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

Needs, Justice, Limits
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-99336-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future, this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.

The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved, wherein it recognizes that different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This revised edition has been brought up to date throughout and contains three new chapters exploring the history of the concept, including the status of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, competing indicators and models of sustainable development, and an overview of global and local changes in the six sustainability themes. It is divided into four parts, each contributing to a deeper understanding of what sustainable development is and what is required to achieve it, including an introduction to key arguments, theoretical foundations and competing models, new empirical knowledge discussing how different countries position themselves in relation to sustainable development, and future directions, offering perspectives on how it can be achieved locally and globally.

Building on the extensive literature exploring humans needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, this book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and the complex environmental and social issues involved.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holden, Erling

Linnerud, Kristin

Banister, David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Idea

· Chapter 1: The moral imperatives of sustainable development

· Chapter 2: A Brief History of Sustainable Development

Part II: The Theories

· Chapter 3: Satisfying human needs

· Chapter 4: Ensuring social justice

· Chapter 5: Respecting environmental limits

Part III: The Model

· Chapter 6: A normative model of sustainable development

· Chapter 7: Indicators and thresholds

· Chapter 8: The sustainable development gaps

· Chapter 9: Models for sustainable development

Part IV: The Implications

· Chapter 10: Progress towards sustainable development

· Chapter 11: Local sustainable development: Lost in translation?

· Chapter 12: Global sustainable development: The next steps

Über Autor(innen)

Erling Holden Professor of Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Kristin Linnerud Professor of Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

David Banister Professor Emeritus of Transport Studies and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.