What is it about?
UN's sustainable development goals lack a normative fundation. This article suggests a normative definition and a model of sustainable develpment that can guide the UN goals.
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Why is it important?
Any definition and operationalisation of sustainable development needs a normative fundation.
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We hope this article reminds the reader that sustainable development is a normative value system. Thus any definition must acknowledge this fact.
Erling Holden
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
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This page is a summary of: The Imperatives of Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development, September 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/sd.1647.
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