scholarly journals Social Equity and Ecological Sustainability - Can the Two Be Achieved Together?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kopp ◽  
Franziska Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Social Equity ◽  
Ecological Sustainability

Opening Doors: Leadership and Mentoring to Create Social Equity

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle L. Tichy-Reese ◽  
Verna Monson ◽  
Lakeesha Ransom
Keyword(s):  
Social Equity

Sustainable Development is a Dead-End: The Logic of Modernity and Ecological Crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lumsden
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Conceptual Frame ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Core Idea

This paper examines the theory of sustainable development presented by Jeffrey Sachs in The Age of Sustainable Development. While Sustainable Development ostensibly seeks to harmonise the conflict between ecological sustainability and human development, the paper argues this is impossible because of the conceptual frame it employs. Rather than allowing for a re-conceptualisation of the human–nature relation, Sustainable Development is simply the latest and possibly last attempt to advance the core idea of western modernity — the notion of self-determination. Drawing upon Hegel’s account of historical development it is argued that Sustainable Development and the notion of planetary boundaries cannot break out of a dualism of nature and self-determining agents.

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