Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17458
Title: Issues and Dimensions of Sustainability
Contributor(s): Quinn, Frances  (author)orcid ; Littledyke, Michael  (author); Taylor, Neil  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2015
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/17458
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.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Educating for Sustainability in Primary Schools: Teaching for the Future, p. 15-31
Publisher: Sense Publishers
Place of Publication: Rotterdam, Netherlands
ISBN: 9789463000451
9789463000444
9789463000468
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130299 Curriculum and Pedagogy not elsewhere classified
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 390199 Curriculum and pedagogy not elsewhere classified
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930399 Curriculum not elsewhere classified
930201 Pedagogy
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160302 Pedagogy
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Editor: Editor(s): Neil Taylor, Frances Quinn, Chris Eames
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter
School of Education

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