Details zur Publikation |
Kategorie | Textpublikation |
Referenztyp | Zeitschriften |
DOI | 10.1080/13504509909470000 |
Titel (primär) | Defining and achieving sustainable development |
Autor | Klauer, B. |
Quelle | International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology |
Erscheinungsjahr | 1999 |
Department | OEKON; OEKUS |
Band/Volume | 6 |
Heft | 2 |
Seite von | 114 |
Seite bis | 121 |
Sprache | englisch |
Abstract | This paper analyses the fundamental problems of defining and achieving sustainable development. A common core of the various definitions of sustainability circulating is identified. Economic and scientific approaches to operationalize sustainability generally lead to management rules, which — if obeyed — should guarantee sustainability. Since it is not possible to precisely predict the future, this scientific—technical—economic route to sustainability may fail. A second, ethical way, to sustainability which interprets sustainability as an ideal for fair play is introduced. How the two different ways may complement one another with a three-step hierarchy of political goals is elucidated. |
dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=8103 |
Klauer, B. (1999): Defining and achieving sustainable development Int. J. Sustain. Dev. World Ecol. 6 (2), 114 - 121 10.1080/13504509909470000 |