Sustainable Development and Religion: Accommodating Diversity in a Post-Secular age

Religion, Values and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development in a post-Brundtland world

Not yet two decades after the publication of Our Common Future, the world’s political and environmental landscape has changed significantly. Nonetheless, we argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD)–as guiding institutional principle, as concrete policy goal, and as focus of political struggle–remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global or...

Title: Post-sustainable Development

The past 15 years have witnessed the rise of post-development theory as a means of understanding the development discourse since the 1940s. Post-development argues that Intentional development (as distinct from Immanent development – what people are doing anyway), is a construct of Western hegemony. Sustainable development, they argue, is no different and indeed is perhaps worse given that most...

Post-(sustainable) Development?

This paper critically reviews the application of a post-development analysis to sustainable development by employing a defined target for post-development analysis-the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The 'quadratic' EKC predicts an increase in environmental degradation with national wealth before reaching a point of inflection. Data from the 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) for ...

Reclaiming the Secular: Developing Dialogic Skills for a Post-Secular Society

This research paper addresses secularization from both political and religious perspectives. One of its manifestations in the political sphere is that of globalization that can lead to alienation within society; and in the United Kingdom this is exemplified by Brexit. Within the religious sphere secularization is usually couched in oppositional terms. This paper reclaims the original use ...