Sustainable Development and ‘Deep Ecology’ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Religion & the Environment

Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, and one of the most important and foremost scholars of Islamic, Religious, and Comparative Studies in the world today. In this interview by Adeel Khan, Managing Editor of the journal Religions-Adyān, and Patrick Laude, Professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Nasr el...

Industrial Ecology Putting Sustainable Development to Work

Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian Fiscal Federalism

This paper argues that the incorporation of new references in the Thirteenth Finance Commission mandate relating to „ecology, environment and climate change‟ and „quality of public expenditure‟ pose new challenges. The challenges arise because the operationalization of these items require various reforms-legal, administrative, costing, valuation, institutional, and monitoring which require poli...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Social-ecology : Exploring the Missing Link in Sustainable Development

Environmental challenges are, at their root, social problems that arise from income and power inequality. Thus, inequality is an environmental issue just as environmental degradation is a social issue (forming a “social-ecological nexus”), and solutions must address them jointly through principles and institutions rooted in justice. This article develops a two-sided “socialecological” approach ...