What is Sustainable Development? Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practice

By Kates W. Robert, T. Parris, Anthony Leiserowitz. 2005

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Citations in the corpus

• The Reporting of SDGs by Quality, Environmental, and Occupational Health and Safety-Certified Organizations (2019, background): “Corporate sustainability has become vital for organizations’ long-term success [60,61].”
• Putting meaning back into “sustainable intensification” (2014, neutral): “Such careless use of the term “sustainable” could lead to misinterpretation or misuse in the context of environmentally destructive activities (Kates et al. 2005).”
• What is Sustainability (2010, background): “Today, however, sustainability is almost always seen in terms of three dimensions: social, economic and environmental [8-11].”
• The political ecology of ecosystem services (2015, neutral): “This lies behind the strength and endurance of buzzwords like „sustainable development‟ (Kates et al. 2005; Lele, 1991), „watershed management‟ (Cohen, 2012), and„biological diversity‟ (Farnham, 2007).”
• Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object (2007, background): “To foster conceptual clarity and practical relevance some authors have suggested a clear and specified theory of sustainability, which is characterized by both a narrow extension and a clear intension of the term (Kopfmüller et al. 2001, 2006, Ott 2003, Ott and Döring 2004, Kates et al. 2005).”
• Sustainable development policy: goals, targets and political cycles (2011, background): “The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE) was held in Stockholm in June 1972 and is usually credited as a fundamental catalyst for international awareness of the Earth’s environment and development problems (UNEP, 2002, p. 4; Kates et al., 2005).”
• Comparative risk assessment of severe accidents in the energy sector (2014, background): “treatment of the three pillars or dimensions of sustainability (Levett, 1998), the degree to which different types of capital can be substituted or not (Dietz and Neumayer, 2007; Hueting and Reijnders, 2004; Rapp Nilsen, 2010), and the time period of concern (Kates et al., 2005).”
• Agritourism and Sustainability: What We Can Learn from a Systematic Literature Review (2020, background): “Since the second half of the last century, a series of social, economic, and environmental changes have considerably altered the planetary balances, generating events such as climate change, pollution, and loss of biological diversity [1].”
• About the Triggering of UN Sustainable Development Goals and Regenerative Sustainability in Higher Education (2019, methodology): “According to Leiserowitz et al., “Values are abstract ideals, such as freedom, equality, and sustainability.”