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- Title
Sustainable Development: A Useful Family of Concepts After All.
- Authors
Bourgeois, Warren
- Abstract
Oddities about the common usage of the phrase sustainable development can be explored with a view to finding a family of clear meanings for this widely used phrase. The most popular definition, authored by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), is really a framework for definitions that vary with context. In spite of its vague-ness, this WCED definition gives rise to a definitional schema that can be used to clarify and categorize many of the definitions currently in use. Because the WCED family of concepts can be applied in practical ethics, it is not necessary to throw up our hands and dismiss sustainable development as chimerical in spite of the plethora of definitions one may find in current use.
- Subjects
CURIOSITIES &; wonders; SUSTAINABLE development; WORLD Commission on Environment &; Development; ENVIRONMENTAL ethics; CONCEPT learning
- Publication
Environmental Ethics, 2014, Vol 36, Issue 3, p259
- ISSN
0163-4275
- Publication type
Article