Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Klauer, Bernd

Titel

Defining and achieving sustainable development

Ist Teil von

• International journal of sustainable development and world ecology, 1999-06, Vol.6 (2), p.114-121

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.