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  • 1 - Sustainability and Decisions

  • Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University
  • Book:
    Decisions for Sustainability
    Published online:
    25 May 2023
    Print publication:
    08 June 2023, pp 1-16
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  • 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.