Sustainable development: how to manage something that is subjective and never can be achieved?

This article examines the notion of sustainable development that has emerged as a new normative orientation of Western society. We argue that sustainable development is an inherently subjective concept and for this reason re-quires deliberative forms of governance and assessment. We outline the cont...

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Main Authors: René Kemp, Pim Martens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2007-08-01
Series:Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
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Online Access:http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol3iss2/0703-007.kemp.html