Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges

Paul Burger, Jan T. Frecè, Yvonne M. Scherrer and Claus-Heinrich Daub
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Paul Burger: Department of Social Sciences, Sustainability Research Group, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, Basel 4056, Switzerland
Jan T. Frecè: Department of Social Sciences, Sustainability Research Group, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, Basel 4056, Switzerland
Yvonne M. Scherrer: Institute of Management, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 6, Windisch 5210, Switzerland
Claus-Heinrich Daub: Institute of Management, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 6, Windisch 5210, Switzerland

Sustainability, 2014, vol. 6, issue 11, 1-6

Abstract: Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e. , local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how exactly “sustainable” societies will or should look. It does not give us a step-by-step pattern to follow, but something like a frame of what ought to be done in order to transform today’s societies, including their economies. [...]

Keywords: strategies for sustainable development; contextualizing sustainable development; institutional settings; operationalizing sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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