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  • Creating sustainable futures
  • About
    • About BAM610
    • Navigating the course site
    • How to interact
    • Site map
  • Course feed
    • Section 1 feed
    • Section 2 feed
    • Section 3 feed
    • Section 4 feed
  • Section 1
    • Sustainability is entirely possible
    • Understanding systems
    • From the Holocene to the Anthropocene
    • Defining sustainability and sustainable development
  • Section 2
    • Understanding the challenge
    • Identifying trends and drivers of change
    • Baseline assets and platforms
    • Sustainability impacts assessment
    • Evaluating important relationships
  • Section 3
    • Developing a strong vision
    • Backcasting from sustainability principles
    • Framing the right strategic goals
  • Section 4
    • Inspiring creative solutions
    • Prioritising actions
    • Communicating for success
    • Choosing the right support tools

Defining sustainability and sustainable development

1. Overview
2. Video signpost
3. Models to define sustainability and sustainable development
4. A model aligned with our reality
5. How the human social system works
6. Basic human needs
7. Maslow – hierarchy of human needs
8. Needs drive human behaviour
9. Trust – the thread for weaving a good world
10. Defining sustainable development and sustainability
11. The Brundtland Commission definition
12. The Natural Step – System conditions for sustainable human activity
13. Summary – a scientific definition of success for humans
14. Start – Sustainable development challenge
15. Tasks – Sustainable development challenge
16. Outputs – Sustainable development challenge

Video signpost

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Defining sustainability and sustainable development

Steve Henry, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Practice at Otago Polytechnic, uses his lounge window in his home in Motueka, New Zealand, to describe how we best define sustainability. Explore these ideas further in this fourth and final learning pathway.



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