Kelly Parker examines several kinds of growth, seeking to identify a sustainable form which could be adopted as normative for human society.
R.H. Gray discusses corporate reporting for sustainable development and the need for a major regulatory initiative.
This article describes the ecovillage Sieben Linden from the perspective of one of its residents.
Wilfred Beckerman discusses “sustainable development” and “sustainability” in relation to welfare maximization.
With reference to the Satoyama Initiative of the Japanese government, this article looks at how biocultural diversity projects can move beyond reproducing the old dichotomy between “modern” scientific and “traditional” local knowledge.
Robin Attfield and Barry Wilkins argue that there are ethical criteria independent of the criterion of sustainability, so critiquing the view that a practice which ought not to be followed must therefore not be sustainable.
Common, Blamey, and Norton discuss the connections between sustainability and environmental valuation for economists.
Anthony M. Friend on Ecological Economics—a new synthesis in which the traditional virtue of thrift is justified using modern ideas from systems theory and thermodynamics.
Michael Redclift analyzes “sustainable development” as a product of the Modernist tradition, arguing for a new vision of the world in which the authority of science and technology is questioned and more emphasis is placed on cultural diversity.
Lester Milbrath discusses the good life, as practised in modern society, claiming it to not only be unsustainable but also frequently not even good.
