Sustainability as emergence : the need for engaged discourse

Richard Bawden

Sustainability as emergence : the need for engaged discourse

Richard Bawden

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Every generation seemingly feels a need to establish what it is that it might contribute to civilization writ large: To state in bold and imaginative terms that which it hopes will be its heritage. This one is no exception. "Let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life" (Earth Charter Initiative, 2000). Little to argue with in that rhetoric, save perhaps to note that each of these noble aims are not without some contestation of specified ends, nor downright disagreements about means by which such ends might be - or more poignantly, ought to be - met.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability: Problematics, Promise and Practice
Editors	Peter Blaze Corcoran, Arjen E. J. Wals
Place of Publication	Germany
Publisher	Kluwer Academic
Pages	21-31
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781402021343
ISBN (Print)	9781402020261
Publication status	Published - 2004

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

Keywords

sustainability
education, higher

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Sustainability as emergence : the need for engaged discourse

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