Does sustainable development lead to sustainability?

Yanarella, Ernest J.; Levine, Richard S.

doi:10.1016/0016-3287(92)90105-o

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“…For the most part, it is these structures that are responsible for many of the decisions that have caused widespread environmental damage [7]. In this vain, it is reasonable to imagine how, under the stewardship of dominant political and economic structures, sustainability could serve to strengthen economic and social conditions which support unsustainable practices [3].…”

Section: Inefficiencies Of Conventional Attempts To Implementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, as successes become tangible aspects of daily life, the concept's legitimacy and acceptance, which has thus far proved elusive, can be secured [7]. Devising operative strategies for sustainability entails striking the challenging balance between creating explicit meaning, while not being overly prescriptive.…”

Section: Sustainable Development At the Local Level: Toward Sustainabmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Facilities Management: A Systemic Process for Achieving Urban Sustainability

Boyle

Michell

2016

WIT Transactions on State-of-the-Art in Science and Engineering

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With cities at the forefront of the challenge of achieving global sustainability, a key concern for urban management bodies is to identify ways to promote sustainable development at the urban and sub-urban level. Assessment mechanisms have dominated this field for the past two decades, and sustainable community assessment tools (SCATs) are fast becoming the principal framework adopted by urban planners and developers to drive sustainability. This paper investigates the efficacy and applicability of this approach to urban sustainability. The study aims to establish that the deployment of a management platform, founded in the principles of facilities management (FM), can provide better mechanisms to facilitate the process of achieving urban sustainability. The data were collected by means of survey interviews with key stakeholders who consisted of two main categories: participants from private and public sector engaged in the management and development of sustainable cities. Secondly, developers of the tools were interviewed. The tools evaluated include: LEED for Neighbourhood Development (LEED-ND), BREEAM Communities (BREEAM-C), CASBEE for Urban Development (CASBEE-UD), and Green Star Communities (GSC). It was found that the prescriptive and outcomes-based nature of assessment tools do not adequately accommodate institutional and social imperatives of urban sustainability. Additionally, a need for more a robust procedural framework to manage relationships between the various relevant professionals and interest groups was highlighted. This would provide a unified method to facilitate the achievement of urban sustainability. The paper concludes that urban sustainability needs to draw upon the management principles of FM to facilitate more comprehensive development and assessment relevant to the needs of a specific locale. Without a process-oriented method such as this, cities will continue to fall short of their sustainable imperatives.

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Section: Inefficiencies Of Conventional Attempts To Implementmentioning

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Section: Sustainable Development At the Local Level: Toward Sustainabmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Facilities Management: A Systemic Process for Achieving Urban Sustainability

Boyle

Michell

2016

WIT Transactions on State-of-the-Art in Science and Engineering

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“…Thus, we now have the contradictions of sustainable development—the critique (see Peet and Watts ; Yanarella and Levine ) that new “green” development involves the use of more land, resources, commercialism, and consumption—existing alongside the potential of the idea of the Anthropocene to act as a fulcrum for a redesigned conception of the human relationship with planetary systems. On the one hand, there is the argument that we need to redesign the way we conceive of human economies and socialities—the processes of connection that produce socionatural assemblages.…”

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Islands of Difference: Design, Urbanism, and Sustainable Tourism in the Anthropocene Caribbean

Moore

2015

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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Resumen Este artículo introduce la idea del antropoceno como un espacio problema con importancia para la antropología del caribe y la industria turística de éste. Este término es utilizado por científicos para definir la era presente en la cual los procesos humanos operan al nivel de escala geológica y biológica en la tierra, y ha venido a justificar una gran cantidad de acciones en el nombre de la sostenibilidad. A través de la examinación de una zona dedicada a la construcción de segundos hogares en las Bahamas, identifico cambios en diseño turístico de la isla que va dejando atrás el modelo del resort como enclave del turismo en masa. Argumento que las nociones de sostenibilidad del antropoceno no sólo re‐articulan las prácticas de construcción y el “branding” del destino turístico, pero también las posibilidades analíticas para el estudio de fabricación de lugar y procesos transnacionales. Abogo por una mayor incorporación de la antropología del diseño y urbana en el estudio del turismo al caribe como una forma de mejor entender estos eventos emergentes.

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“…The problem with this orthodox strategy of development, as argued elsewhere (Yanarella and Levine, 1992a), is that these statements focus policy action at an inappropriate scale. Targeting sustainable development strategically at the global or national scale all but makes impossible meaningful ecological/ social analysis and concerted political action.…”

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confidence: 99%

Beyond environmental moralism and policy incrementalism in the global sustainability debate: case studies and an alternative framework

Yanarella

Bartilow

2000

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Does sustainable development lead to sustainability?

Cited by 52 publications

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Urban Facilities Management: A Systemic Process for Achieving Urban Sustainability

Urban Facilities Management: A Systemic Process for Achieving Urban Sustainability

Islands of Difference: Design, Urbanism, and Sustainable Tourism in the Anthropocene Caribbean

Beyond environmental moralism and policy incrementalism in the global sustainability debate: case studies and an alternative framework

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