Due to its scope and spectrum, sustainable development is a theme which is both interdisciplinary in nature, and flexible in respect of its usefulness and applications. An integrative approach to sustainability, i.e., an approach that combines aspects of several schools of thought, several methods and tools, is therefore very useful not only in respect of teaching but also in research as well, yielding results that monolitical approaches could not possibly achieve. The potential of integrative approaches is threefold:
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