Understanding Sustainable Development

Blewitt, John

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“…The understanding of the term sustainable is related to several meanings as a result of different perspectives, motivations and aspirations from researches and social groups in relation to the theme (BLEWITT, 2008;BARBOSA, DRACH and CORBELLA, 2014;YOLLES and FINK, 2014). Kidd (1992) and Adams (2006) defend that the term is overloaded with possible conflicting ideas, having, thus, to explain various meanings.…”

Section: Doubts and Misunderstandings Generated By The Term Sustainablementioning

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

2017

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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: Doubts and Misunderstandings Generated By The Term Sustainablementioning

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

2017

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“…They can offer farming communities valuable support in developing new patterns of behaviour and can enhance their potential to make choices to attain economic, social and political well-being (Freire, 1975;Sen, 1999;Van Hemelrijck, 2013). Paying closer attention to these actors will provide a more nuanced understanding of the multidimensional nature of sustainable development; and the role of different stakeholders in supporting developing communities to take control of their lives (Blewitt, 2014). In this study, AFNs offered a valuable platform to demonstrate the different types of partnerships through which sustainable development can be achieved.…”

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Development communication in alternative food networks: empowering Indian farmers through global market relations

Touri

2016

The Journal of International Communication

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As sustainability is becoming a bigger global concern, sustainable development operations require new partnerships and a multiplicity of communication practices among various stakeholders. Private enterprises with social, ecological and ethical concerns can be among those stakeholders, but their role in development communication has received limited attention. To address this deficit, this article explores the capacity of small private enterprises to empower farming communities, through a dialogical model of communication. Focusing on Alternative Food Networks, the article argues that market exchanges are mediated by social relations that can bring to light an alternative and ethical side of the global market. These relations are examined empirically through a qualitative case study: a community of farmers in South India and their relation with small private enterprises from Europe and North America. The findings reveal significant ways in which these partnerships can prove empowering for farmers, showing there is fertile ground for more active involvement of enterprises in development communication practices.

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“…The background for the LCSA defi nition by Klöpffer ( 2008 ) and Klöpffer and Renner ( 2007 ) is thus the 'triple bottom line' or 'threepillar' interpretation of sustainability, which is a very common interpretation (e.g. Mitchell et al 2004 ;Blewitt 2008 ) adopting a system approach.…”

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Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: What Is It and What Are Its Challenges?

Guinée

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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Environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) has developed fast over the last three decades. Today, LCA is widely applied and used as a tool for supporting policies and performance-based regulation, notably concerning bioenergy. Over the past decade, LCA has broadened to also include life cycle costing (LCC) and social LCA (SLCA), drawing on the three-pillar or 'triple bottom line' model of sustainability. With these developments, LCA has broadened from merely environmental assessment to a more comprehensive life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA). LCSA has received increasing attention over the past years, while at the same time, its meaning and contents are not always suffi ciently clear. In this chapter, we therefore addressed the question: what are LCSA practitioners actually doing in practice? We distinguished two sub-questions: which defi nition(s) do they adopt and what challenges do they face? To answer these questions, LCSA research published over the past half decade has been analysed, supplemented by a brief questionnaire to researchers and practitioners. This analysis revealed two main defi nitions of LCSA. Based on these two defi nitions, we distinguished three dimensions along which LCSA is expanding when compared to environmental LCA: (1) broadening of impacts, LCSA = LCA + LCC + SLCA; (2) broadening level of analysis, product-, sector-and economy-wide questions and analyses; and (3) deepening, including other than just technological relations, such as physical, economic and behavioural relations. From this analysis, it is clear that the vast majority of LCSA research so far has focused on the 'broadening of impacts' dimension. The challenges most frequently cited concern the need for more practical examples of LCSA, effi cient ways of communicating LCSA results and the need for more data and methods particularly for SLCA indicators and comprehensive uncertainty assessment. We conclude that the three most crucial challenges to be addressed fi rst are developing quantitative and practical indicators for SLCA, life cycle-based approaches to evaluate scenarios for sustainable futures and practical ways to deal with uncertainties and rebound effects.

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Understanding Sustainable Development

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

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

Development communication in alternative food networks: empowering Indian farmers through global market relations

Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment: What Is It and What Are Its Challenges?

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