Chapter 9 Delivering Resilient Sustainability

DOI: 10.4324/9781003386629-10

Striking the balance between economic strength, social cohesion, and environmental security.

Sustainability is vital to our future, encompassing a broad and diverse set of aspirations. To deliver everything which comes beneath the umbrella of sustainability would be a huge challenge and could become unmanageable. To avoid this, the term resilient sustainability is used here to define the core challenges at the heart of sustainability. Make progress with these, and other related challenges will become easier to solve.

To deliver resilient sustainability requires striking a balance between economic strength, social cohesion, and environmental security. The issues to ...

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