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Lecture 1 Sep 28
Lecture 1 Sep 28
INSTRUCTOR
DR. SHAHBAZ ABBAS
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Contents
Pillars of Sustainability
SDGs
Key Concepts
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Sustainability
Environment
Weak Sustainability
Weak sustainability is built around growth, economic growth, and human welfare
as science and instrumental value to nature, and assumes that nature can be substitute, at
least partially by other forms of capital.
Strong Sustainability
Strong sustainability, on the other hand, is built around nature, a size and intrinsic value to
nature, and highlights our human obligations to nature
Sustainable Development
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs.
Sustainability
Meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
Sustainable development is path towards sustainability
If you look at the UN resolution and the later documents, you can see that each of the SDGs is broken
down into specific targets with related indicators that will allow countries to monitor the progress towards
a specific goals
Achieving the goals, setting the agenda 2030 will require efforts at all levels, international, national,
regional, and local levels.
They acknowledged the links between economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
They are applicable both to the global North and to the global South
Breaking down into individual goals, we are losing the grand vision of the Brundtland Report.
The SDGs hardly deal with the issues of trade-offs, that is, for example, improving one SDG may worsen another
SDG.
One could argue that they are not equally important. For example, if we think in terms of the nested models, some
SDGs could be considered a function of further SDGs. This is only one of the many possible ways of analyzing and
interpreting data dependencies between SDGs.
Key Concepts
Social-Ecological Resilience
of Systems
Sustainability
Tipping Point