MEDIO AMBIENTE, DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE Y ESCALAS DE SUSTENTABILIDAD
- Author
- Á. Paniagua, E. Moyano
- Year
- 1998
- Type
- journal article
- Category
- Sustentabilidad
Paniagua and Moyano (1998) examine why the concept of sustainability lacks a single, universally accepted definition and argue that this ambiguity is itself part of how the concept functions. They review different approaches to sustainable rural development and propose a set of scales for assessing sustainability at the rural level.
This article addresses the many-sided and contested nature of the concept of sustainability. The authors argue that there is no single, universally accepted understanding of the term, and that this lack of consensus, or vagueness, is itself a defining feature of how the concept works in practice. The paper reviews different approaches to sustainable development applied to rural settings and proposes a set of scales, from the local to the more general, for thinking about and assessing sustainability at the rural level.
Credits: Paniagua, Á., & Moyano, E. (1998). MEDIO AMBIENTE, DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE Y ESCALAS DE SUSTENTABILIDAD. REIS Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Jul.-Sep(83), 151–175.
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