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Blowers, Andrew, Boersema, Jan and Martin, Adrian 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2916-7712
(2012)
Is sustainable development sustainable?
Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 9 (1).
pp. 1-8.
ISSN 1943-815X
Abstract
This journal proclaims its concern with “the relationships between science, society and policy and a key aim is to advance understanding of the theory and practice of sustainable development”. We have certainly endeavoured to publish research articles, from scholars in the natural and social sciences, which put forward what our title calls an “integrative” approach. This integration is intended to be at once interdisciplinary, crossing not only disciplinary divides but also bringing together science and policy and policy and practice. And this integration is to be achieved through a focus on sustainable development as the integrating concept. But, it may be asked, has this concept any validity or utility as the leitmotif of a journal? Is it merely a routine recognition of a normative concept that is now pretty much axiomatic for environmental scientists and policy makers alike? Or, does the concept still retain sufficiently positive, purposive and practical connotations to fulfil its presumed role as an overarching goal of scientific understanding and political policy-making? The answer is, we suspect, a bit of both of these. It all depends on perspective, on value and viewpoint; in short, on what we think we mean by sustainable development.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Adrian Martin |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2012 16:53 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jun 2023 06:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/37874 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1943815X.2012.666045 |
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