Five criteria for global sustainable development
by Kristin Linnerud; Erling Holden
International Journal of Global Environmental Issues (IJGENVI), Vol. 15, No. 4, 2016

Abstract: A clear understanding of the global-level sustainable development concept is necessary before applying it to projects at a national, local or firm level. Such lower-level projects may concern managing production and consumption of energy, organisation of cities and using land productively. However, the sustainable development goals adopted at the United Nations Summit in September 2015 do not provide adequate guidance, even at the global level, because the goals are too many, too vague and often not quantified. Based on the 1987 report Our Common Future, we derive five criteria for the development of primary goals and corresponding indictors and quantified thresholds to be met.

Online publication date: Mon, 19-Dec-2016

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