Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world

Sneddon, Chris; Howarth, Richard B.; Norgaard, Richard B.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.04.013

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“…As such, with the idea of sustainable development in mind the objective is to solve the paradox between environmental (sustainability) and economic (development). Sneddon, Howarth and Norgaard (2006) point out that the starting point of this contradictory union officially began with the publication of the Brundtland Report, which demonstrates concern about environmental and developmental dilemmas. In sum, the connections between sustainable development and sustainability are explicit, as shown in Chart 5.…”

Section: The Connection Between Sustainability and Sustainable Develomentioning

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Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: desvendando as sobreposições e alcances de seus significados

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The sustainable, sustainability and sustainable development are remarkable and timely terms at the global level. However as they lack an axiomatic concept, they lead to criticism and doubts in their theoretical application and praxis. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the attributes of sustainable, sustainability and sustainable development to contribute to its concept. This work is typified as a qualitative, bibliographical, and interpretive one, in which the databases of consulted journals are related to Science Direct, Springer Link, Wiley Online Library, and Google Scholar. The main results show that the sustainable is responsible for solutions to the deterioration of the humanenvironment system with the help of sustainability and sustainable development. Sustainability measures the level of quality of this system in order to evaluate its distance from the sustainable. Sustainable development works with strategies to bring the level of sustainability closer to the sustainable human-environment system. The attributes of these terms have distinct meanings and relate to specific praxis, but they converge to a single goal. Thus, an axiomatic concept of these terms assists in praxis to hold areas with distinct functions accountable, but with a single final attempt to achieve the idea of a sustainable human-environment system. We hope this work may prompt further study on these terms and help in understanding their praxis and theoretical application.Keywords: Sustainable. Nature capital. Environmental/human system. Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: desvendando as sobreposições e alcances de seus significados ResumoSustentável, sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável são termos notáveis e oportunos em nível global. Entretanto pelo fato de serem desprovidos de conceitos axiomáticos geram críticas e dúvidas na práxis. Este estudo objetiva analisar os atributos de sustentável, sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável visando contribuir para o axioma de seus conceitos. Esta pesquisa tipifica-se em qualitativa, bibliográfica e interpretativa. As bases de periódicos consultados relacionam-se a Science Direct, Springer Link, Wiley Online Library e Google Scholar. Os principais resultados revelam que "sustentável" tem a incumbência pelas soluções à deterioração do sistema ambiental humano com auxílio da sustentabilidade e do desenvolvimento sustentável. A sustentabilidade mensura o nível da qualidade deste sistema com intuito de avaliar o seu grau de distância em relação ao sustentável. O desenvolvimento sustentável atua com estratégias para aproximar o nível de sustentabilidade ao sistema ambiental humano sustentável. Os atributos destes termos possuem significados distintos e relacionam-se a uma práxis específica, entretanto, convergem a um único objetivo. Sendo assim, um conceito axiomático destes termos auxilia na práxis para responsabilizar as áreas com funções distintas, mas com um único intento final, o de alcançar a ideia de sistema ambiental humano sustentável. Salienta-s...

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Section: The Connection Between Sustainability and Sustainable Develomentioning

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Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: desvendando as sobreposições e alcances de seus significados

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“…Indeed, the market meltdown seems to have intensified political resolve internationally to press ahead with conventional progrowth policy prescriptions. The seeming intensification of neoliberal economic globalization also appears to have tightened what has been called the "ideological and epistemological straightjackets" that have militated thus far against cohesive and politically effective interpretations of sustainable development (Sneddon et al 2006). Instead of reforming the management of globalization and mitigating its side effects, there is much renewed political determination to persist with orthodox market-based approaches to policy making (Stiglitz, 2010).…”

Section: Conclusion: Western Australia's Experience In the Global Conmentioning

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“…In the early 1970s, the idea of the also increasingly visible "limits to growth" (Meadows et al 1972;Mesarovic & Pestel, 1974) began to challenge the until-then firmly embedded dogma of unbridled economic development that had been prevalent since the end of World War II. A decade later, the Brundtland Commission (WECD, 1987) provided a new normative frame that shaped contemporary discourses of development, marking the point at which the concept of sustainable development came to be embraced globally (Sneddon et al 2006). That this new development perspective considered economic activity and environmental protection as complementary certainly contributed to its widespread appeal (Hunter, 2002).…”

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The rise and fall of sustainability in Western Australian politics: a review of sustainable development under the Western Australian Labor government between 2001 and 2008

Brueckner

Pforr

2011

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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This article addresses problems associated with the political operationalization of the sustainability agenda and the design of new development goals based on the case of Western Australia (WA). In this state, rapid economic development, long the key objective of successive governments, has caused serious environmental problems and brought into question the sustainability of the state's development path. In the 2001 WA state election, the Labor Party came into office in part because of its overt commitment to sustainable development, departing from past progrowth philosophies. This article analyzes the extent to which the WA Labor government was able to operationalize politically its sustainability agenda during its time in office between 2001 and 2008. It finds that despite a strong commitment to its sustainability agenda in the early years of holding office, the Labor government failed to institutionalize policy changes, which, following a 2006 leadership change, allowed for a reversal of progress. We then discuss the WA experience within the global policy context and place it within the larger debates on the operationalization of sustainability.

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“…Parallel to and perhaps related to these 'signature features', we have also witnessed an eroding of the power and influence of the institutions for global environmental change (eg, the United Nations, multilateral agreements) which have diminished significantly since Brundtland and Rio (O'Riordan, 1998;Sneddon et al, 2006), whereas institutions such as the World Trade Organisation continue to strengthen stridently, structurally exerting disproportionate influence in the realm of global environmental governance and, in so doing, skewing the focus towards economic growth and market liberalisation at the expense of environmental and social goals (Sneddon et al, 2006). In spite of these shifts in power, the instruments put in place by the various international meetings worked on the assumption that the ecological crisis could be solved through an agenda developed and enacted through existing institutions-with no critique of the appropriateness and capacity of these institutions.…”

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“…Simultaneously, the promotion of economic development became the primary means for securing social and environmental sustainability. Although there was an acknowledgement that achieving sustainable development would require a recalibration of institutional mechanisms at global, national, and local levels (Sneddon et al, 2006), the fundamental contradictions between hegemonic patterns of neoliberal economic globalisation and questions of environmental and social justice as well as the power relations among local to global actors were for the most part ignored and remained unproblematised. This foregrounding of economic development and evasion of power relations in global governance is a legacy that endures over the twenty years since Rio, with a direct bearing on the potential and pitfalls of the local, and specifically the South, as sites of action for global sustainability.…”

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Scalar Politics and Local Sustainability: Rethinking Governance and Justice in an Era of Political and Environmental Change

Lawhon

Patel

2013

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract. The local was institutionalised as a key scale for environmental action at the Earth Summit, and remains salient in discourse, policy, and action. However, given both real changes and geographical insights into the politics of scale in the past twenty years, we suggest it is time to (re)consider this focus. We assess local sustainability through the lens of scalar politics, arguing for the need to consider what challenges particular scale frames foreground and which they silence. We focus on three changes which have occurred in the last twenty years-the growing salience of the Global South, shifts from environmentalism to sustainability, and new governance patterns-and reflect on the significance of these changes for local sustainability. We suggest the local frame occludes questions of international responsibility and justice, and that the changes since Rio require that we reconsider the scalar frame of local sustainability. We conclude by questioning who benefits from the local frame, and when, where, and for whom a focus on local sustainability may be relevant and ethical.

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Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world

Cited by 519 publications

References 46 publications

Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: desvendando as sobreposições e alcances de seus significados

Sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento sustentável: desvendando as sobreposições e alcances de seus significados

The rise and fall of sustainability in Western Australian politics: a review of sustainable development under the Western Australian Labor government between 2001 and 2008

Scalar Politics and Local Sustainability: Rethinking Governance and Justice in an Era of Political and Environmental Change

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