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Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed
sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The
Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical
foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes
three equally important moral imperatives - satisfying human needs,
ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This
model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to
them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable
development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no
single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different
countries face different challenges and must follow different
pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine
whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have
been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive
literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science,
ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives
can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and
provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be
essential reading for everyone interested in the future of
sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social
issues involved.
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed
sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The
Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical
foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes
three equally important moral imperatives - satisfying human needs,
ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This
model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to
them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable
development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no
single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different
countries face different challenges and must follow different
pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine
whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have
been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive
literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science,
ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives
can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and
provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be
essential reading for everyone interested in the future of
sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social
issues involved.
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