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Five criteria for global sustainable development

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  • Kristin Linnerud
  • Erling Holden

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A clear understanding of the global-level sustainable development concept is necessary before applying it to projects at a national, local or firm level. Such lower-level projects may concern managing production and consumption of energy, organisation of cities and using land productively. However, the sustainable development goals adopted at the United Nations Summit in September 2015 do not provide adequate guidance, even at the global level, because the goals are too many, too vague and often not quantified. Based on the 1987 report Our Common Future, we derive five criteria for the development of primary goals and corresponding indictors and quantified thresholds to be met.

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  • Kristin Linnerud & Erling Holden, 2016. "Five criteria for global sustainable development," International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(4), pages 300-314.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgenv:v:15:y:2016:i:4:p:300-314
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    Cited by:

    1. Charmaine Williamson & Peet Venter, 2018. "Paradox as a generative practice," Eastern European Business and Economics Journal, Eastern European Business and Economics Studies Centre, vol. 4(2), pages 162-188.
    2. Kristin Linnerud & Erling Holden & Morten Simonsen, 2021. "Closing the sustainable development gap: A global study of goal interactions," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(4), pages 738-753, July.

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