Understanding sustainable development by John Blewitt

“Sustainable development has emerged through political and environmental struggles, through a business, citizen and governmental engagement with the complexity of contemporary ecological and other problems, and a vast array of perspectives, values and interests that have been applied in seeking to understand and deal with them.

The chapter ends with the suggestion that sustainable development is perhaps best understood as

a ‘dialogue of values’ –

a way of encouraging people to learn, to discover and to evaluate”