Issues and Dimensions of Sustainability

Title
Issues and Dimensions of Sustainability
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Quinn, Frances
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3144-3416
Email: fquinn@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:fquinn
Littledyke, Michael
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Editor
Editor(s): Neil Taylor, Frances Quinn, Chris Eames
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Place of publication
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Edition
1
UNE publication id
une:17673
Abstract
As outlined in Chapter 1, sustainability comprises interlinked environmental, societal, political and economic dimensions (see also UNESCO, 2010). What is happening in relation to any one dimension will affect, and be affected by, what is happening in all the other dimensions. For example, a local water shortage (environmental dimension) could lead to loss of income for people relying on that source (economic dimension), demographic changes if people move out of the area (social dimension) and conflict between different water users (political dimension). This is not a hypothetical example. Situations such as this have occurred in some parts of Australia; for example, in the Murray-Darling Basin, and analogous problems continue to occur across the globe. Hence, the sustainability of our future is enhanced by actions that jointly conserve our natural environment, build social systems that are peaceful and concerned with equality and human rights, and implement democratic political arrangements and appropriate economic development that takes into account the constraints and limits of our planet.
Link
Citation
Educating for Sustainability in Primary Schools: Teaching for the Future, p. 15-31
ISBN
9789463000451
9789463000444
9789463000468
Start page
15
End page
31

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