Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Wicked Problems

A social or cultural issue or concern that is difficult to explain and inherently impossible to solve

Characteristics of Wicked Problems

No clear rule

unique

No final end to solutions

Every problem is a sympton to another

Examples of Wicked Problems

Abuse

Poverty

Climate Change

Discrimination

Income

Sustainability

Managing resources w/o depleting them for future generations

Sustainable Development

Long term economic wellbeing and quality of life for ppl now and the future

Hayden Washington

Compared

Sustainabilty = the destination

Sustainable Development = the Journey

Brundtland Report

Biggest Idea.

Development that meets the needs of the present w/o comprosing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

The 3 E’s

Environment

Economy

Equity

Environmental Justice

Fair Treatment and meaningfull involvement w/ all ppl regulation laws and all polices

Industrial Revolution

1850’s

Inventions, manufacturing, coal, Iron, steam engine

Anthropocene

Earth’s physical change driven by human activities

Measuring Economic Development

GDP (Total production in a year)

GNI (Gross National Income.)

Conservative Free-Market Economists

Belief if market is left alone = More efficient to allocate resources.

Up to the people

Economic

No government

Liberal Reformers

Gov’t provides regulations, education, infrastructure.

Balance for all 3 E’sCr

Critical Political Economy

Markets and capitalism are not neutral. Protect the powerful, propetuate the equity

Carl Marx P

Political Ecology

Countries coming together to address problems

Millenium Development Goals

2000s

Global framework for all countries to ascribe to.

Lasted 15 yrs

Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty

8 goals

Sustainable Development Goals

17 goals

no poverty

no hunger

good health and well being

quality education

gender equality

Human Development Index (HDI)

Measures things that go beyound economic factors.

3 key parts

Standard of Living based on GNI

Health

Education

Contreal ladder- Measures Happiness