The Concepts of Sustainability - 2713 Words

Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Dà ¶ring Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1 Sustainable development adapted after the Brundtlandt Report 1987, is a planned, aim- and process oriented procedure that meets the needs of today’s generations without endangering the needs of future generations and world regions (Ott Dà ¶ring 2004, 2006).2 The†¦show more content†¦This in turn required a common perception of the central approaches and concepts of the project. Starting point of the negotiation process was the adoption of the concept of â€Å"strong sustainability† (given in the project application). â€Å"Strong sustainability† refers to an approach in which natural capital (resources) is regarded as non-substitutable. Since natural resources are limited, they form the basic prerequisite for them (Dà ¶ring, 2004). But the question remains: How to deal with the other dimensions of sustainability? And where to locate culture? During ongoing mutual exchange of research information and experiecens, we came up with a first model of our project-internal aim of sustainability. Within our project, we have three sub-projects – biology, hydrology and anthropology – that jointly aim to reach sustainable pasture use (cf. Figure 1). This closely resembles a project internal sustainability-model with culture (local identity, needs and knowledge i.e.) influencing all components of our project. 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