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The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits book cover

2nd Edition

The Imperatives of Sustainable Development Needs, Justice, Limits

By Erling Holden, Kristin Linnerud, David Banister Copyright 2026
340 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future , this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, defining the... Read more

Part I: The Idea

·       Chapter 1: The moral imperatives of sustainable development

·       Chapter 2: A Brief History of Sustainable Development

Part II: The Theories

·       Chapter 3: Satisfying human needs

·       Chapter 4: Ensuring social justice

·       Chapter 5: Respecting environmental limits

Part III: The Model

·       Chapter 6: A normative model of sustainable development

·       Chapter 7: Indicators and thresholds

·       Chapter 8: The sustainable development gaps

·       Chapter 9: Models for sustainable development

Part IV:  The Implications

·       Chapter 10: Progress towards sustainable development

·       Chapter 11: Local sustainable development: Lost in translation?

·       Chapter 12: Global sustainable development: The next steps

Biography

Erling Holden Professor of Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Kristin Linnerud Professor of Renewable Energy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management; and Adjunct Professor at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

David Banister Professor Emeritus of Transport Studies and Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK.

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