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How do we measure progress?
35 years after the first publication of the Club of Rome's "Limits to Growth", this question is still on the agenda. Or better: on the agenda again. While in the 70s and 80s of the past century concepts like "qualitative versus quantitative growth" were intensively discussed under the influence of Dennis Meadows et al., the past 20 years have rather centered around the principle of the compatibility of economic prosperity and environmental protection, with this change of trends probably being due to the fact that the appeals to dispense with economic growth at the time did not receive much approval and support in society.
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Sustainability needs engagement on various levels. Everyone can either
get active on an individual basis, or hope for (positive) top-level
decisions.
The region as a spatial level is repeatedly addressed in
relation to sustainability. Regions are big enough to already guarantee
noticeable changes; as pilot regions they may become the triggers for
large-scale developments; they are of wide political scope, and their
relatively low degree of structural complexity allows for easy and
quick decisions.
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Education for Sustainable Development |
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Imaginative efforts to rethink democratic and economic life tend to fall through the nets of public attention. Yet, social and ecological indicators on resource extraction and emissions, and on unemployment and poverty, have signaled for years the need for radical social change. But while the ecological footprint metaphor that sustaining current consumption and production would require several planets has become a common-place, proposals for social change are strangely absent from public debate. |
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