sustainable development
In the International Year of the Mountains, 2002, several international and regional events have highlighted the important role of women in sustainable mountain development and several mountain women’s networks and groups have been formed or have joined the mountain agenda. Mountain Partnership Initiative Survey called on women's organisations to complete the survey on mountain...
A generic system dynamics model was developed as an explicit thinking tool to investigate systems of payments for environmental services (PES) and possible feedback effects regarding environmental ethics. Healthy ecosystems may justify charges for environmental services, but damaged ecosystems will require payouts funded by other mechanisms, perhaps by penalties on ecodamage. Any payouts made...
This article examines the notion of sustainable development that has emerged as a new normative orientation of Western society. The authors argue that sustainable development is an inherently subjective concept and for this reason re-quires deliberative forms of governance and assessment. They outline the contours of sustainability science as a new form of science, complementing traditional...
This paper analyzes sustainable development practices within Sri Lanka’s energy sector. It directs attention to how expertise functions in development decision making in ways that can unintentionally inhibit sustainable development. Understanding expertise as merely specialised knowledge clouds its role as a social activity. In practice, expertise is a combination of knowledge and...
This article critically examines the approach of technical experts, including engineers, natural scientists, architects, planners, and other practitioners, who are attempting to create more sustainable forms of economic development, environmental protection, and social equity. The authors identify four principal characteristics of expertise–ontological assumptions, epistemological...
Sustainable development is a rich concept that has helped shape the discussion of human society’s interaction with the biosphere. However, the term “sustainable development” is contentious, and some dismiss it outright as an oxymoron. The seemingly contradictory “sustainable” and “development” can be reconciled by accepting that due to two factors, the...
Currently, a growing societal awareness of problems in the context of unsustainable development meets with conflicts of interest, and the actual implementation of sustainability research, and sustainable innovations and technologies, has only been mildly successful. Sustainable development demands nothing less than a radical change in their modes of consumption, production, technology, and...
This essay constitutes a piece of boundary work between science and policy. It illustrates the conflicts, but also the opportunities, that natural resource management encounters in the twenty-first century. The author has tried to provide a widely accessible document that argues why a more holistic approach to conservation and natural resource management is imperative....
This agenda item of the sixty-second session of the General Assembly details the points adopted by the General Assembly on sustainable mountain development (February 2008).
Tourism is a business. Despite attractive brochures that advertise international understanding and exchange between local people and tourists, tourism is clearly a business proposition for those who supply tourist services and those who market these services world-wide. It is also clear that tourists themselves are more interested in relaxation, a change of scenery, and their own enjoyment...
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