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Beyond the pillars: sustainability assessment as a framework for effective integration of social, economic and ecological considerations in significant decision-making
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Sustainability is an essentially integrative concept and it seems reasonable to design sustainability assessment as an essentially integrated process and framework for decision-making on under-approximation as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Sustainability is an essentially integrative concept. It seems reasonable, then, to design sustainability assessment as an essentially integrative process and framework for decision-making on under...read more
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Conceptualising sustainability assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare TBL approaches and principles-based approaches to developing such sustainability criteria, concluding that the latter are more appropriate, since they avoid many of the inherent limitations of the triple-bottom-line as a conception of sustainability.
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Conceptualising sustainability assessment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an alternative notion of sustainability assessment, with the more ambitious aim of seeking to determine whether or not an initiative is actually sustainable, and compare TBL approaches and principles-based approaches to developing such sustainability criteria, concluding that the latter are more appropriate, since they avoid many of the inherent limitations of the triple-bottom-line as a conception of sustainability.