Sustainability in the twenty-first century: applying sustainomics to implement the sustainable development goals

Intervention Ecology: Applying Ecological Science in the Twenty-first Century

Sustainable Heritage: Challenges and Strategies for the Twenty-First Century

this century. passing generations. What remains is culture, the product of society, having a longer span of life even than human communities, while nature is the setting for all of human activity and is constant through time. Each level is left to operate at its own pace, safely sustained by the slower levels below and itself kept invigorated by the livelier levels above. The total effect of th...

Sustainable Human Development in the Twenty-First Century: An Evolutionary Perspective

Making the Sustainable Development Goals Consistent with Sustainability

The UN’s Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) are the most significant global effort so far to advance global sustainable development. Bertelsmann Stiftung and the sustainable development solutions network released an SDG index to assess countries’ average performance on SDGs. Ranking high on the SDG index strongly correlates with high per person demand on nature (or “Footprints”), and low rank...

From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals.

1. Pursuant to Economic and Social Council resolution 2006/18, the Commission for Social Development has included the agenda item entitled “Emerging issues” in its programme of work since its 2007-2008 review and policy cycle. Under this agenda item, the Commission addresses current issues affecting social development that require urgent consideration or new cross-cutting issues in the context ...