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IX.        What is Sustainability and Sustainable Development?

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This bibliography is concerned with disturbing environmental and social trends, along with the potential to make things better and the risks if we don’t.  This section focuses on articles that help define, critique, and differentiate between the sustainability and sustainable development paradigms.  Both offer principles and frameworks for interventions meant to foster a better future. 

Section X follows this section up with articles focused on the how and why of teaching around sustainability and infusing its principles into the missions of our teaching institutions.  Section XI (Sustainability Manifestos) shares articles and reports that diagnose our fundamental problems and recommend ways to transform our lifestyles, governance, and socioeconomic systems to get our civilization into harmony with the planet and foster greater well-being for all in ways that can be sustained indefinitely.  This section (What is Sustainability and Sustainable Development?), its citations, and the following lengthy preface are offered as something separate from sections X and XI because sustainability and sustainable development are slippery, contestable concepts requiring some unpacking in order to better understand the variety in the articles shared in the next two sections of the bibliography.

Speaking in generalities… I think it is all too common for people to think that sustainability is synonymous with environmentalism.  Environmentalists are primarily advocating for the preservation and restoration of natural ecosystems and measures to retain biodiversity and environmental health.  As human society has a big net negative impact on the biosphere, minimizing human interaction with ecosystems is a common prescription.

While sustainability and sustainable development are also concerned with the enhancement of natural ecosystems, they are differentiated from environmentalism by their equal or greater emphasis on enhancing the well-being of people.  At its most basic, for something to be sustainable means that it can continue to do what it does indefinitely.  Both sustainability and sustainable development as movements are out to sustain (increasingly) equitable, just, and healthy human societies while also recognizing that the success of this never ending project absolutely relies on the preservation of a relatively stable and verdant earth system and the services it provides.

So how do sustainability and sustainable development differ?  Sustainable development has a more circumscribed accepted meaning and a narrower range of advocates and practitioners.  Its practitioners are also much better funded.  Sustainable development blossomed as a named paradigm in 1987.  It was the brainchild of the World Commission on Environment and Development that produced what is now commonly referred to as the Bruntland Report.1  The Bruntland Report was most notable for recommending that environmental quality, economic development, and human rights challenges needed to be considered as intertwined and thus addressed together.

The sustainable development paradigm was quickly conceptualized with diagrams like the one seen in Figure 1 and co-opted by the business world in their attempts to use the “triple bottom line” as a lens for assessing projects and investments.2  In this conceptualization, each element (environment, society, economy) are considered as largely separate entities of fairly equivalent importance. The Bruntland Report also yielded the most widely quoted definition of sustainable development: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

 

Many additional diagrams meant to represent the conceptual elements of sustainability and/or sustainable development can be seen here.

Figure 1. Triple legged stool model for sustainable development.  From Hummel (2016).

Figure 2. A conceptual diagram from Flint (2010) titled The Framework and Directionality of Systemic Sustainability Science.

 

This conceptual model apparent in Figure 1 and the Bruntland Report definition of sustainable development, along with the values they represent, have been subject to criticism from the get-go.  Note that the definition above is almost entirely anthropocentric, with little clarity as to how needs are defined or how far into the future this cautionary formula is meant to extend. But the more fundamental criticism of this sustainable development model is in how it overemphasizes the independence and importance of economic development.  People who are sympathetic to this critique are more likely to favor the bullseye model seen in Figure 2, where society and economy are embedded within the environment, and thus are clearly seen as being entirely dependent upon its function and integrity.3  These same critics are likely to consider the sustainable development phrase as an oxymoron.  If development means ever increasing throughput of natural resources into our socioeconomic systems, with the primary purpose of the natural world to serve as a utilitarian source for plunder and a sink for our wastes, then the perpetual growth impetus can only come at unsustainable cost to biodiversity and ecosystem integrity.  This erodes the very foundation on which our social and economic systems stand (or fall). 

Nonetheless, the sustainable development movement chugs along. It is championed by the United Nations and its principles animate the many initiatives and agencies it sponsors. The initiatives tend to manifest as top-down efforts featuring outside expertise and money applied in developing countries.  These efforts are meant to advance progress in the 17 sustainable development goals.4 , 5  While progress toward meeting most of the goals and their indicators is falling short of desired benchmarks, many years of effort have yielded many tangible gains, such as:

-          The under-5 mortality rate fell by 49% between 2000 and 2017.

-          The share of the world’s population living in extreme poverty decreased to 10 per cent in 2015, down from 36 per cent in 1990.

-          In Southern Asia, a girl’s risk of marrying in childhood has decreased by 40% since 2000.

-          9 out of 10 people worldwide now have access to electricity.

-          104 out of 220 coastal regions improved their coastal water quality between 2012 and 2018.5

However, the 2019 Sustainable Development Goals report warns that many or all of the gains like these are likely to be reversed, while negative trends will accelerate, if we don’t limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.6  This calls into question the sufficiency of the sustainable development model, which has at least been tolerated by national governments and the world of business, for fostering an ever improving society.

In comparison to the sustainable development paradigm, the sustainability paradigm is more poorly defined and malleable. Advocates of sustainability represent a broader spectrum of values and preferred prescriptions for what ails our society.  Sustainable development is calibrated to the world that is, with its practitioners committed to working within (and thus perpetuating) the neoliberal capitalism framework.  As such, it lies at the hierarchical, incremental end of the spectrum of the sustainability movement. Other proposals representative of sustainability envision a future society that is decidedly different than the one we take for granted. Most of them start with a critique of capitalism and its ruthless pursuit of growth at the cost of biodiversity, equity, and health. Then they envision other ways of organizing society that are based in more egalitarian and communitarian ethics and favor grassroots-up cultural transformation to affect the transition out of a perceived dead-end socio-economic system. 

There are many more nuances to sustainability and sustainable development, thus the citations offered below.  How do these paradigms relate to resilience?  What is the difference between strong and weak sustainability?  Just how radical do sustainability advocates get?  What are its historical underpinnings? What are the critiques against the sustainability movement?  Compared to other sections of the bibliography, however, there aren’t quite as many citations to wade through! 

As an introduction to sustainability, I tend to have my students read the first two chapters of the Dresner book, and/or the article by Prugh and Assadourian.   I also have students compare and contrast many definitions of sustainability and sustainable development, included in a document you can download here, then identify the common threads.  Furthermore, I find it to be very insightful to connect the literature that is explicitly about sustainability cited below and in section XI with the literature in section III that is about the development and expression of values, ethics, and political ideologies.  Through this kind of synthesis one can better understand where these sustainability proposals are coming from, why there is variability among them, and why there is so much reflexive pushback against them.

 

Citations

      

ACCIONA (2016). What is Sustainability? https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=FbAjxkGvDNs  [A short video.]

 

Adams, W (2006). The Future of Sustainability: Re-thinking Environment and Development in the Twenty-first Century. Report of the IUCN Renowned Thinkers Meeting, 29-31 January. International Union for Conservation of Nature. https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/12635

 

Adams, W (2009). Green Development: Environment and Sustainability in a Developing World. Routledge, 3rd edition. https://www.academia.edu/17150113/Green_Development_3rd_edition_Environment_and_sustainability_in_a_developing_world?email_work_card=title [book]

 

Ahmed, N (2015). UN Plan to Save Earth is “Fig Leaf” for Big Business Insiders: Why the New Sustainable Development Agenda is “Fundamentally Compromised” by Corporate Interests. Sept. 15. IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus. https://ecology.iww.org/node/1301?bot_test=1

 

Albrecht, G (2020). Ethics, Anarchy and Sustainable Development. Psychoterratica, July 28. https://glennaalbrecht.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/ethics-anarchy-and-sustainable-development/ [Emphasis on the philosophical roots, inherent inequities, and promises of the sustainable development paradigm and right wing vs. left wing formulations for localism and against authoritarianism.]

 

The Alternative UK (2020). Here Come the Time Rebels! Japan's "Future Design" Movement Shows How to Factor Future Generations Into Our Politics. https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2020/10/25/future-design-japan-time-rebels

 

Asara, V, Otero, I, Demaria, F and Corbera, E (2015). Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social–ecological Transformation: Repoliticizing Sustainability. Sustainability Science, 10. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-015-0321-9

 

Bakari, M (2014a). Sustainability's Inner Conflicts: From 'Ecologism' to 'Ecological Modernization.' Journal of Sustainable Development Studies, 6(1). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/acf2/7ab34ecd972ade041a904dca5fd2acbf8312.pdf

 

Bakari, M (2014b). Sustainability and Contemporary Man-Nature Divide: Aspects of Conflict, Alienation, and Beyond. Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, 13(1). https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e45d/25b4256caf6febf5f397a5506f05e0179218.pdf

 

Balch, O (2013). Buen Vivir: The Social Philosophy Inspiring Movements in South America. The Guardian, Feb. 4. https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/buen-vivir-philosophy-south-america-eduardo-gudynas

 

Barry, J (1996). Sustainability, Political Judgement and Citizenship: Connecting Green Politics and Democracy, in Doherty, B and de Geus, M (eds.) Democracy and Green Political Thought. Routledge. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303959377_Sustainability_political_judgement_and_citizenship_connecting_green_politics_and_democracy

 

Barry, J (2012). The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability. Oxford University Press, NY. https://www.academia.edu/1159982/The_Politics_of_Actually_Existing_Unsustainability_Human_Flourishing_in_a_Climate_Changed_Carbon_Constrained_World?email_work_card=title

 

Bartlett, A (1997). Reflections on Sustainability, Population Growth, and the Environment – Revisited. Renewable Resources Journal, 15(4). https://dieoff.com/page146.htm

 

BBC (2020). Sustainable Thinking.  BBC Ideas. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/playlists/sustainable-thinking  [Access to a series of videos related to aspects of sustainability.]

 

Beling, A, Vanhulst, J, Demaria, F, Rabi, B, Carballo, A and Pelenc, J (2018). Discursive Synergies for a ‘Great Transformation’ Towards Sustainability: Pragmatic Contributions to a Necessary Dialogue Between Human Development, Degrowth, and Buen Vivir. Ecological Economics, 144. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319639847_Discursive_Synergies_for_a_'Great_Transformation'_Towards_Sustainability_Pragmatic_Contributions_to_a_Necessary_Dialogue_Between_Human_Development_Degrowth_and_Buen_Vivir

 

Bennett, E, Biggs, R, Peterson, G and Gordon, J (2021). Patchwork Earth: Navigating Pathways to Just, Thriving, and Sustainable Futures. One Earth, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.004

 

Blewitt, J (2008). Understanding Sustainable Development. Earthscan, London. https://www.academia.edu/23743702/Understanding_Sustainable_Development

 

Blythe, J, Silver, J, Evans, L, Armitage, D, Bennet, N, Moore, M, Morrison, T and Brown, K (2018). The Dark Side of Transformation: Latent Risks in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse. Antipode, 50(5). https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12405 or https://www.academia.edu/37440330/The_Dark_Side_of_Transformation_Latent_Risks_in_Contemporary_Sustainability_Discourse

 

Board on Sustainable Development, National Research Council (1999). Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability. National Academy Press. Executive summary: http://www.rwkates.org/pdfs/b1999.01.pdf Full report: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9690/our-common-journey-a-transition-toward-sustainability

 

Boehnert, J (2019). Transition Design and Ecological Thought. Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación, 73. https://www.academia.edu/36748332/Transition_Design_and_Ecological_Thought

 

Boffey, D (2020). Amsterdam to Embrace 'Doughnut' Model to Mend Post-coronavirus Economy. The Guardian, April 8. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/08/amsterdam-doughnut-model-mend-post-coronavirus-economy

 

Bonnet, M (2006). Education for Sustainability as a Frame of Mind. Environmental Education Research, 12(3-4). http://www.bath.ac.uk/cree/resources/ecerbonnett.pdf

 

Bowers, K (2018). Sustainability vs. Resiliency: Designing for a Trajectory of Change. The Field, July 12. American Society of Landscape Architects. https://thefield.asla.org/2018/07/12/sustainability-vs-resiliency-designing-for-a-trajectory-of-change/

 

Brand, U and Wissen, M (2018). What Kind of Great Transformation? The Imperial Mode of Living as a Major Obstacle to Sustainability Politics. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.3.8 or https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oekom/gaia/2018/00000027/00000003/art00009;jsessionid=16bbip2eh231p.x-ic-live-01

 

Bringezu, S (2015). Possible Target Corridor for Sustainable Use of Global Material Resources. Resources, 4(10): 25-54. https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/4/1/25

 

Bruce, D (2008). How Sustainable Are We? European Molecular Biology Organization Reports, 9. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3327537/

 

Burke. M (2018). Shared Yet Contested: Energy Democracy Counter-Narratives. Frontiers in Communication, 3(22). https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00022

 

Burkhardt, J (1989). The Morality Behind Sustainability. Journal of Agricultural Ethics, 2: 113-128. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01826927 or https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00007201/00001

 

Chaigneau, T et al. (2021). Reconciling Well-being and Resilience for Sustainable Development. Nature Sustainability, . https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00790-8

 

Cimadamore, A, Mittelmark, M, Lie, G and Ottemoller, F (eds.). (2016). Development and Sustainability: The Challenge of Social Change. https://www.crop.org/publications/crop-book-series/development-and-sustainability-the-challenge-of-social-change.aspx [Open access book, 8 chapters.]

 

Clark, H (2020). A Future for the World’s Children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission. The Lancet Commissions, 395(10224). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32540-1

 

Clark, W (2001). A Transition Toward Sustainability. Ecology Law Quarterly, 27(4). https://www.belfercenter.org/sites/default/files/files/publication/A%20Transition%20toward%20Sustainability.pdf

 

Clark, W and Harley, A (2020). Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 45. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012420-043621

 

Cohen, S (2019). Beyond Climate: The Crisis of Environmental Sustainability. Earth Institute, Columbia University, Sept. 23. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2019/09/23/beyond-climate-crises-environmental-sustainability/

 

Cohen, S (2020). Defining and Measuring Sustainability. State of the Planet, Oct. 19. Columbia University. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/10/19/defining-measuring-sustainability-2/ [Emphasis on sustainability reporting/tracking in the corporate world.]

 

Cohen, S (2021). Climate and COVID as Crises of Environmental Sustainability. State of the Planet, Feb. 8. Earth Institute, Columbia University. https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2021/02/08/climate-covid-crises-environmental-sustainability/

 

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia. Sustainability. https://www.csiro.au/en/research/environmental-impacts/sustainability [Web site featuring research sponsored by CSIRO. The categorization highlights the concerns of sustainability.]

 

Connellan, P (2022). The Top Ten Apps To Help You Live More Sustainably. Women Love Tech, Feb. 4. https://womenlovetech.com/the-top-tem-apps-to-help-you-live-more-sustainably/

 

Creative City Network of Canada (2007). Exploring the Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability. Creative City News, Special Edition 4. https://www.creativecity.ca/database/files/library/Creative_City_News_E.pdf

 

Curren, R (2011). Toward An Ethic of Sustainability. NPR, Nov. 11. https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2011/11/01/141903604/toward-an-ethic-of-sustainability

 

Di Fabio, A (2017). The Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development for Well-Being in Organizations. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01534/full

 

Dillard, J, Dujon, V and King, M (2010). Defining Social Sustainability, in Heinberg R and Lerch, D (eds.) The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises. Watershed Media. https://www.scribd.com/document/85512035/FOUNDATION-CONCEPTS-What-Is-Sustainability [Scroll down to page 9.]

 

Dolter, B and Victor, P (2017). From Growth to Sustainability, in Victor, P and Dolter, B (eds.) Handbook on Growth and Sustainability. Edward Elger Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781783473557/9781783473557.00006.xml

 

Domazet, M and Jerolimov, D (2014). Sustainability Perspectives from the European Semi-periphery. Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Heinrich Böll Stifung Hrvatska. http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/7/1/Sustainability%20perspectives%20from%20the%20European%20semi-periphery.pdf [12 interesting chapters.]

 

Doughnut Economics Action Lab (2021). About Doughnut Economics. https://doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughnut-economics

 

Doughnut Economics Action Lab (2021). Dimensions of the Doughnut. https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools-and-stories/30

 

Dovers, S and Handmer, J (1993). Contradictions in Sustainability. Environmental Conservation, 20(3): 217-221. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44518820?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

 

Dowd, M (2019). Sustainability 101 - Ecology as Theology. You Tube, Nov. 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch

 

Dresner, S (2002).  Principles of Sustainability. Earthscan, London.

 

Du Pisani, J (2006). Sustainable Development – Historical Roots of the Concept. Environmental Sciences, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/15693430600688831

 

Durack, R (2001). Village Vices: The Contradiction of New Urbanism and Sustainability. Places Journal, 14(2). https://placesjournal.org/article/village-vices-the-contradiction-of-new-urbanism-and-sustainability/  [Provocative call for open-ended, flexible planning.]

 

Duxbury, N and Gillette, E (2007). Culture as a Key Dimension of Sustainability: Exploring Concepts, Themes, and Models. Working Paper No. 1, Creative City Network of Canada - Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities. https://cercles.diba.cat/documentsdigitals/pdf/E130054.pdf

 

Elkins, P and Zenghelis, D (2021). The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Sustainability. Sustainability Science, 16. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-021-00910-5

 

Evans, M (2020). What Is Environmental Sustainability? The Balance Small Business, July 8. https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-sustainability-3157876

 

Explainity Channel (2012). Sustainability Explained. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5r4loXPyx8 [A 6 minute intro level video.]

 

Faber, N, Jorna, R and Van Engelen, J (2005). The Sustainability of "Sustainability" — A Study Into the Conceptual Foundations of the Notion of "Sustainability. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 7(1). http://www.sustainableorganizations.org/Sustainability-of-Sustainability.pdf

 

Fahrmeir, A (2020). Democracies, Change, Sustainability, and Transformation: Historical Perspectives. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1781329

 

Fang, K (2021). Moving Away from Sustainability. Nature Sustainability, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00802-7

 

Fanning, A, O’Neill, D, Hickel, J and Roux, N (2021). The Social Shortfall and Ecological Overshoot of Nations. Nature Sustainability, 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-021-00799-z

 

Feil, A and Schreiber, D (201). Sustainability and Sustainable Development: Unraveling Overlays and Scope of their Meanings. Cadernos EBAPE.BR, 14(3). http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cebape/v15n3/en_1679-3951-cebape-15-03-00667.pdf

 

Feola, G (2020). Capitalism in Sustainability Transitions Research: Time for a Critical Turn? Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2019.02.005

 

Feola, G and Jaworska, S (2019). One Transition, Many Transitions? A Corpus-based Study of Societal Sustainability Transition Discourses in Four Civil Society’s Proposals. Sustainability Science, 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-018-0631-9

 

Ferreira, F (2017). Critical Sustainability Studies: A Holistic and Visionary Conception of Socio-ecological Conscientization. The Journal of Sustainability Education, March. http://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/critical-sustainability-studies-a-holistic-and-visionary-conception-of-socio-ecological-conscientization_2017_04/

 

Fien, J and Tilbury, D (2002). The Global Challenge of Sustainability, in Tilbury, D, Stevenson, R, Fine, J and Schreuder, D (eds.) Education and Sustainability: Responding to the Global Challenge. IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/2002-002.pdf

 

Filho, W (2000). Dealing with Misconceptions on the Concept of Sustainability. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1108/1467630010307066

 

Filho, W, Wolf, F, Salvia, A, Beynaghi, A, Shulla, K, Kovaleva, M and Vasconcelos, C (2020). Heading Towards an Unsustainable World: Some of the Implications of Not Achieving the SDGs. Discover Sustainability, 1(2). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43621-020-00002-x#Tab2

 

Fiskel, J, Eason, T and Frederickson, H (2012). A Framework for Sustainability Indicators at EPA. National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US EPA. EPA/600/R/12/687. https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2014-10/documents/framework-for-sustainability-indicators-at-epa.pdf

 

Flint, RW (2012). Symbolism of Sustainability: Means of Operationalizing the Concept. Synesis, Vol. 1(1): T25-37. http://www.synesisjournal.com/vol1_no1_t/2010.1.1_T125-37_Flint.pdf

 

Folke, C, Hahn, T, Rockström, J, Osterblom, H and Walker, B (2009). Resilience and Sustainable Development 2.0. Stockholm Resilience Centre. http://www.stockholmresilience.org/download/18.53ee94ff132ea99552880003257/1459560213637/Resilience_report_for_SCSD_31march2009.pdf

 

Foran, B (2012). Physical Realities and the Sustainability Transition, in Raupach, M, McMichael, A, Finnigan, J, Manderson, L and Walker, B (eds) Negotiating our Future: Living Scenarios for Australia to 2050, Vol. 2. Australian Academy of Science. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279311574_Physical_realities_and_the_sustainability_transition

 

Frankel, B (2018). Fictions of Sustainability: The Politics of Growth and Post-Capitalist Futures. Greenmeadows, Melbourne. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328736187_Fictions_of_Sustainability_The_Politics_of_Growth_and_Post-Capitalist_Futures

 

Fregosi, S (2021).  Introduction to No Sustainability Without Justice. AASHE. https://spark.adobe.com/page/YcX7rY8EPVlls/

 

Frey, U (2017). A Synthesis of Key Factors for Sustainability in Social–ecological Systems. Sustainability Science, 12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-016-0395-z

 

Gallopin, G (2003). A Systems Approach to Sustainability and Sustainable Development. United Nations Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, Publicatioon LC/L.1864-P. https://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/5759/S033119_en.pdf?sequence=1

 

Garcia, E (2019). Thoughts on Sustainability Part 2. Miista.com, Oct. 30. https://miista.com/is-sustainable-development-sustainable-thoughts-on-sustainability-part-2/

 

Gaziulusoy, I and Oztekin, E (2019). Design for Sustainability Transitions: Origins, Attitudes and Future Directions. Sustainability, 11. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/13/3601/pdf

 

Gorg, C, Brand, U, Haberl, H, Hummel, D, Jahn, T and Liehr, S (2017). Challenges for Social-Ecological Transformations: Contributions from Social and Political Ecology. Sustainability, 9(7). https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/7/1045/htm

 

Groves, C (2019). Sustainability and the Future: Reflections on the Ethical and Political Significance of Sustainability. Sustainability Science, 14. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-019-00700-0

 

Gudynas, E (2011). Buen Vivir: Today's Tomorrow. Development, 54. http://www.gudynas.com/publicaciones/GudynasBuenVivirTomorrowDevelopment11.pdf Or https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/dev.2011.86

 

Hammond, M (2020). Sustainability as a Cultural Transformation: The Role of Deliberative Democracy. Environmental Politics, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1684731   

 

Hancock, T (2019). Beyond Science and Technology: Creating Planetary Health Needs Not Just ‘Head Stuff’, but Social Engagement and ‘Heart, Gut and Spirit’ Stuff. Challenges, 10(1). https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/10/1/31/htm

 

Harris, J (2000). Basic Principles of Sustainable Development. G-DAE Working Paper No. 00-04, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University. http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/working_papers/Sustainable%20Development.PDF

 

Hausknost, D (2019). The Environmental State and the Glass Ceiling of Transformation. Environmental Politics, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1680062 [A cogent and devastating critique of the feasibility of a sustainability transition.]

 

Heinberg, R (2010). What is Sustainability? in Heinberg R and Lerch, D (eds.) The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century’s Sustainability Crises. Watershed Media. https://www.scribd.com/document/85512035/FOUNDATION-CONCEPTS-What-Is-Sustainability

 

Henfry, T and Giangrande, N (2014). Resilience and Community Action in the Transition Movement, in Henfry, T, Maschkowski, G and Penha-Lopes, G, eds., Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation. Transition Research Network. ECOLISE Series, Permanent Publications. http://www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/uploads/1/2/7/3/12737251/3.2_transition_and_resilience.pdf

 

Henfry, T and Kenrick, J (2014). Climate, Commons and Hope: The Transition Movement in Global Perspective, in Henfry, T, Maschkowski, G and Penha-Lopes, G, eds., Resilience, Community Action and Societal Transformation. Transition Research Network. ECOLISE Series, Permanent Publications. http://www.transitionresearchnetwork.org/uploads/1/2/7/3/12737251/4.2_climate_commons_and_hope.pdf

 

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O’Neill, D et al., (2020b). Country Comparisons. University of Leeds. https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/countries/  Web site associated with: O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F., and Steinberger, J.K. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 1. [Select a country to view its environmental sustainability and social performance relative to the “safe and just space” framework and see how it compares with other countries.]

 

O’Neill, D et al., (2020c). Explore Scenarios. University of Leeds. https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/explore-scenarios/ Web site associated with: O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F., and Steinberger, J.K. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 1. [Use the sliders below each of the social indicators to raise or lower the thresholds we chose for a “good life”, and explore what your choices would mean for sustainability if they were extended to all people.]

 

O’Neill, D et al., (2020d). The Wellbeing–Consumption Paradox. University of Leeds. https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/paradox/  Web site associated with: O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F., and Steinberger, J.K. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 1. [Interactive graphing of metrics of social indicators vs carbon footprint for all countries.]

 

O’Neill, D et al., (2020e). World Map. University of Leeds. https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/world-map/  Web site associated with: O’Neill, D.W., Fanning, A.L., Lamb, W.F., and Steinberger, J.K. (2018). A Good Life for All Within Planetary Boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 1. [Use this interactive world map to see the number of biophysical boundaries that different countries transgress (the BIOPHYSICAL tab) in comparison to the number of social thresholds that they achieve (the SOCIAL tab).]

 

Orr, D (2003). Four Challenges of Sustainability. School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont. 5p. http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/4CofS.html

 

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Pezzey, J and Toman, M (2002b). Making Sense of “Sustainability. Resources for the Future, Issue Brief 02-25. https://media.rff.org/documents/RFF-IB-02-25.pdf [Includes an Economic Analysis of Sustainability.]

 

Pezzey, J and Toman, M (2005). Sustainability and its Economic Interpretations, in Simpson, R, Toman, M and Ayres, R (eds.), Scarcity and Growth: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium. RFF Press. http://people.anu.edu.au/jack.pezzey/PezzeyToman2005.pdf

 

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Prugh, T and Assadourian, E (2003). What is Sustainability, Anyway? World Watch Magazine, 16(5). 13p. http://www.worldwatch.org/system/files/EP165A.pdf

 

Remington-Doucette, Sonya (2017). Sustainable World: Approaches to Analyzing and Resolving Wicked Problems. Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2nd edition.

 

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Sala, S, Ciuffo, B and Nijkamp, P (2015). A Systemic Framework for Sustainability Assessment. Ecological Economics, 119: 314-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.09.015

 

Salazar, J (2015). Buen Vivir: South America’s Rethinking of the Future We Want. The Conversation, July 23. https://theconversation.com/buen-vivir-south-americas-rethinking-of-the-future-we-want-44507

 

Sangha, K (2018). What Kind of Development We Want to Afford Sustainable Living? Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering, A 7. https://davidpublisher.com/Public/uploads/Contribute/5b35da6a839b6.pdf

 

Santamarina, B, Vaccaro, I and Beltran, O (2015). The Sterilization of Eco-criticism: From Sustainable Development to Sustainability to Green Capitalism. Anduli: Revista Andaluza de Ciencias Sociales, 14. http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/162517/1/659506.pdf

 

Saylor Academy (2020). The Human Dimensions of Sustainability: History, Culture, Ethics, in ENVS203: Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views. https://learn.saylor.org/mod/page/view.php?id=8422 [Unit in an online course]

 

Schantz, M et al., (2021). ULI Sustainability Outlook 2021. Urban Land Institute. https://www.greengrowthknowledge.org/research/uli-sustainability-outlook-2021 [What sustainability topics and issues are on the rise, why do they matter, and what should the industry do about it?]

 

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Schley, S and Laur, D (n.d.). The Sustainability Challenge: Ecological and Economic Development. The Systems Thinker.com. https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-sustainability-challenge-ecological-and-economic-development/

 

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Sirolli, E (2012). Truly Sustainable Economic Development. TEDxEQChCh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpIxZiBpGU0 [A stirring critique of international aid efforts]

 

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Social Europe (2020). Themes: Just Transition. https://www.socialeurope.eu/focus/just-transition [A collection of articles defining what a Just Transition to a sustainable future must look like.]

 

SolAbility (2020a). Sustainable Democratic Competitive: 12 Policies for More Sustainable AND More Prosperous Societies. http://solability.com/solability/sustainability-publications [Very business oriented.]

 

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