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Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-1479
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2408-5304
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-6433
Greater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow. Advancing towards some form of sustainability requires greater attention and analysis of the role played by the human inner world. While the scientific analytic tools have focused on external aspects, we present a scientific methodology to identify human critical determinants (HCDs) acquired during the human biological and cultural evolution, which, although crucial for survival, well-being, and economic prosperity, may also currently act as human sustainability boundaries (HSDs). These boundaries can be softened by personal transformations with the capability of spurring resonant institutional and governance transformations. This commentary examines how a definable set of interacting and interdependent HCD provides a complete and coherent explanation of why reaching sustainability is currently an elusive objective.
Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-1479
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2408-5304
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-6433
Greater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow. Advancing towards some form of sustainability requires greater attention and analysis of the role played by the human inner world. While the scientific analytic tools have focused on external aspects, we present a scientific methodology to identify human critical determinants (HCDs) acquired during the human biological and cultural evolution, which, although crucial for survival, well-being, and economic prosperity, may also currently act as human sustainability boundaries (HSDs). These boundaries can be softened by personal transformations with the capability of spurring resonant institutional and governance transformations. This commentary examines how a definable set of interacting and interdependent HCD provides a complete and coherent explanation of why reaching sustainability is currently an elusive objective.
Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7316-1479
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2408-5304
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-6433
Greater global awareness and action to implement sustainable development are underway. However, global progress towards sustainability has been slow. Advancing towards some form of sustainability requires greater attention and analysis of the role played by the human inner world. While the scientific analytic tools have focused on external aspects, we present a scientific methodology to identify human critical determinants (HCDs) acquired during the human biological and cultural evolution, which, although crucial for survival, well-being, and economic prosperity, may also currently act as human sustainability boundaries (HSDs). These boundaries can be softened by personal transformations with the capability of spurring resonant institutional and governance transformations. This commentary examines how a definable set of interacting and interdependent HCD provides a complete and coherent explanation of why reaching sustainability is currently an elusive objective.
Unveiling global sustainability boundaries: exploring inner dimensions of human critical determinants for sustainability
Sustain Sci
Santos, Filipe Duarte (author) / O’Riordan, Tim (author) / de Sousa, Miguel Rocha (author) / Pedersen, Jiesper Tristan Strandsbjerg (author)
Sustainability Science ; 19 ; 1097-1102
2024-05-01
6 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Sustainability , Evolutionary approach , Human critical determinants , Human sustainability boundaries Environment , Environmental Management , Climate Change Management and Policy , Environmental Economics , Landscape Ecology , Sustainable Development , Public Health , Earth and Environmental Science
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