Chapter 6

The End of a Journey?

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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.(from T S Eliot's Little Gidding)

The authors see this book as the outer manifestation of a considerable number of journeys. We have explored a number of domains in the broad church of sustainable development (SD), and specifically focused on sustainability indicators (SIs). We have reviewed the progress made by a number of practitioners in these domains of experience, and tried to extract some commonalities. We have explained our own use of a methodology – systemic sustainability ...

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