Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges
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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. Nevertheless, and even despite its often bemoaned abstractedness, it is far from being a " content free " term as well as being so broad as to invite an " anything goes " mentality. First, SD is a reaction to what could be called a general development dilemma: Our actions that are intended to improve human living OPEN ACCESS
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