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Title: Chapter 0 Our Common Journey Executive Summary


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Chapter 0Our Common JourneyExecutive Summary
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Chapters Contents
  1. Our Common Journey
  2. Trends and Transitions
  3. Exploring the Future
  4. Environmental Threats and Opportunities
  5. Reporting on the Transition
  6. Integrating Knowledge and Action

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1. Our Common Journey
  • "Sustainable development"the reconciliation of
    society's developmental goals with its
    environmental limits over the long term
  • SD attempts to reconcile the real conflicts
    between economy and environment and between the
    present and the future
  • However, key differences in the specific issues
  • what is to be sustained
  • what is to be developed
  • how should sustained and developed entities be
    linked
  • what is the extent of the future envisioned
  • The approach to managing SD is partly captured in
    the metaphor of Compass and Gyroscope. Science
    can provide compass direction, while the
    gyroscope of politics can maintain some
    steadiness of course across often-uncharted seas.

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2. Trends and Transitions
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3. Exploring the Future
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4. Environmental Threats and Opportunities
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5. Reporting on the Transition
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6. Integrating Knowledge and Action
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Key Goals and Questions
  • "Sustainable development"the reconciliation of
    society's developmental goals with its
    environmental limits over the long term
  • SD attempts to reconcile the real conflicts
    between economy and environment and between the
    present and the future
  • There is agreement that SD is "to ensure that it
    meets the needs of the present without
    compromising the ability of future generations to
    meet their own needs.
  • However, key differences in the specific issues
  • what is to be sustained
  • what is to be developed
  • how should sustained and developed entities be
    linked
  • what is the extent of the future envisioned

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Development-Sustainability Consumption-Environment
  • While Population growth rates continue to
    decline, the number of people living in poverty
    has increased.
  • While globalization has presented new
    opportunities for sustainable development, the
    income inequality between the richest and poorest
    countries have all increased.
  • While some countries have significantly reduced
    pollution and slowed resource depletion, the
    state of the global environment has continued to
    deteriorate.

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Goals for a Sustainability Transition
  • The approach to managing SD is partly captured in
    the metaphor of Compass and Gyroscope.
  • Science can provide compass direction, while the
    gyroscope of politics can maintain some
    steadiness of course across often-uncharted seas.
  • In light of the trends of population growth,
    consumption, .. and environmental stress, a
    sustainability transition (ST) appears necessary.
  • The goals of ST over the next two generations
    should be to meet the needs of a much larger but
    stabilizing human population, to sustain the life
    support systems of the planet, and to
    substantially reduce hunger and poverty.
  • Preserving life support system will include
  • Ensuring the Quality and Supply of Fresh Water
  • Controlling Emissions into the Atmosphere
  • Protecting the Oceans
  • Maintaining Species and Ecosystems

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Learning, Knowledge and Know-how
  • Successfully navigating the transition lies in
    conceptualizing sustainable development as a
    process of social learning and adaptive response
    amid turbulence and surprise.
  • There is little guidance on how to identify and
    create the knowledge and know-how for SD.
  • Knowledge Webster's Dict... the fact or
    condition of knowing something with familiarity
    gained through experience or association...or the
    acquaintance with or understanding of a science,
    art, or technique."
  • Know-how here refers to the Webster's Ninth
    New Collegiate Dictionary definition, "knowledge
    conveyed by expertise of how to do something
    smoothly and efficiently."
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