The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

Needs, Justice, Limits
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-99337-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 330 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987) Our Common Future, this revised and updated second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.

The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved wherein it recognises that different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This revised edition has been brought up to date throughout and contains three new chapters exploring the history of the concept, including the status of the UN SDGs, competing indicators and models of sustainable development, and an overview of global and local changes in the six sustainability themes. It is divided into four parts, each contributing to a deeper understanding of what sustainable development is and what is required to achieve it, including an introduction to key arguments, theoretical foundations and competing models, new empirical knowledge discussing how different countries position themselves in relation to sustainable development, and future directions, offering perspectives on how it can be achieved locally and globally.

Building on the extensive literature exploring needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, this book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Banister, David

Holden, Erling

Linnerud, Kristin

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Idea

· Chapter 1: The moral imperatives of sustainable development

· Chapter 2: A Brief History of Sustainable Development

Part II: The Theories

· Chapter 3: Satisfying human needs

· Chapter 4: Ensuring social justice

· Chapter 5: Respecting environmental limits

Part III: The Model

· Chapter 6: A normative model of sustainable development

· Chapter 7: Indicators and thresholds

· Chapter 8: The sustainable development gaps

· Chapter 9: Models for sustainable development

Part IV: The Implications

· Chapter 10: Progress towards sustainable development

· Chapter 11: Local sustainable development: Lost in translation?

· Chapter 12: Global sustainable development: The next steps

Über Autor(innen)

Erling Holden: Professor in Renewable Energy at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

David Banister: Professor Emeritus of Transport Studies and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK

Kristin Linnerud: Professor in Renewable Energy at Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences