Sustainable development: Our Common Future revisited
By E. Holden, K. Linnerud, David Banister. 2014
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No clear definition of sustainable development exists to guide politicians in solving challenges at the global or regional levels. Rather, the concept's use has increasingly reflected socially desirable attributes of solutions to local- and project-level problems, but these ignore the global challenges that the concept was meant to address. We return to the original definition of sustainable development used in the Brundtland Report and suggest an assessment method to determine whether countries currently meet the threshold values of four equally important primary dimensions: safeguarding long-term ecological sustainability, satisfying basic needs, and promoting intragenerational and intergenerational equity. We also define indicators and threshold values for each of these dimensions; in addition, we show how 167 countries compare in meeting these threshold values. Currently, no country meets all four thresholds. Even so, we propose that, with the use of technology and behavioural changes, it will be possible to reach the threshold values by 2030.
Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Transportation
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In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
- F. Wallentin
- K. Linnerud
- D. Gasper
- David Banister
- R. B. Swain
- E. Holden
- D. Clark
- Bernd Carsten Stahl
In Transportation
Citations in the corpus
- Achieving sustainable development goals: predicaments and strategies (2019, background): “Instead, there are different contested theoretical approaches and definitions (Hopwood and O’Brien 2005; Holden et al. 2014).”
- The Framing of Sustainable Consumption and Production in SDG 12 (2019, background): “…Commission report addressed not only moderating the environmental impacts of economic growth, but the need to fundamentally change unsustainable consumption patterns, plus the inter and intragenerational equity issues associated with growth (Holden et al., 2014; Langhelle, 1999; WCED, 1987).”
- The Imperatives of Sustainable Development (2017, background): “Since then, many indicators, indicator sets and dashboards, compound (composite and aggregated) indicators, and compound indices have been introduced (e.g., UNCSD, 1996 and 2007; Holden and Linnerud, 2007; Pintér et al., 2012; Dahl, 2012; Holden et al., 2014; Hák et al., 2016; UNSD, 2015).”