Sustainability concept: we agree to disagree

Andrei Radutu () and Paul Poleanschi ()
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Andrei Radutu: Department of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Paul Poleanschi: Department of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies

International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, 2015, vol. 4, 394-405

Abstract: Sustainability (S) and Sustainable Development (SD) are two inter-related concepts, which describe the way a society is developing, towards a better and more durable life for its citizens. Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) represent an agreed way of measuring the attained level of sustainability and are applied mostly to the three main dimensions of the SD: economic, social and environmental. Various arguments were developed over the years, arguing which of the three dimensions is more relevant to the sustainability and sustainable development, leading eventually to several lists of SDIs. By comparing these SDI, this paper intends to explore the effect driven by the emphasis put by states and organizations into any of these particular dimensions, and to observe if the SDIs lead to unity of effort or if they are subject to disagreement.

Keywords: sustainability; sustainable development (SD); SD indicators (SDI) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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