Book contents
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Reviews
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sustainability and Decisions
- 2 Sustainability Evolving
- 3 How We Make Decisions
- 4 Facts and Values
- 5 What Is a Good Decision?
- 6 Decisions and Conflicts
- 7 Reform or Transformation?
- 8 Influencing Decisions
- 9 Influencing the Conversation
- Notes
- References
- Index
1 - Sustainability and Decisions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2023
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Reviews
- Decisions for Sustainability
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Sustainability and Decisions
- 2 Sustainability Evolving
- 3 How We Make Decisions
- 4 Facts and Values
- 5 What Is a Good Decision?
- 6 Decisions and Conflicts
- 7 Reform or Transformation?
- 8 Influencing Decisions
- 9 Influencing the Conversation
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Climate change and other global processes shape and are shaped by local process such as land use change. Does the idea of sustainability help us take account of both human well-being and the environment at the local and global level? To answer, we have to unpack what is involved in decision-making and what sustainability means. Decisions are made in multiple roles: consumer, citizen, role model for others, organizational participant, investor, and resource manager. In all of these roles, context, including inequalities, shapes opportunities and constraints and thus decisions. Context often reflects a long history of previous decisions, including discrimination. Thus context and choice are two views of the same process.
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- Decisions for SustainabilityFacts and Values, pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023