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Abstract
Sustainability processes are imperfect, hence there is a need to analyze their construction, evolution and deployment. To this end, a sample of one hundred sustainability constructs was taken, together with their conceptual approaches, in order to gauge their impact and to ascertain the dimensions to which they belong. A frequency count and categorization were carried out using Google, which saturated in seven dimensions: economic, social, environmental, legal, political, ethical and cultural. A higher-order association of these hierarchies was then proposed, establishing a triad model that indicated only the most representative combinations of dimensions resulting from the extraction of the most significant definitions. From these definitions and in accordance with their frequency of use in Google, it is inferred that the current concept of sustainability is based on the economic-social-ethical category. This highlights the distance between what, a priori, seems to implicitly allow any definition of sustainability and the existing reality.
Highlights
This study takes a theoretical and problem-solving approach to the processes of sustainability from an empirical, axiological and propositional point of view through an analysis of the definitions of sustainability
The results show that the association by triads of 34 units of analysis is that which carries the greatest weighting
It is clear from the study that the dimensions that currently contribute most to the dynamics of sustainability processes are the political, social and ethical
Summary
This study takes a theoretical and problem-solving approach to the processes of sustainability from an empirical, axiological and propositional point of view through an analysis of the definitions of sustainability. To this end, the conceptual deployment and derived impact of these definitions was studied, including the inherent contradictions and connections arising from their theoretical construction (see Appendix A). Ecological and social concerns are becoming increasingly important as everyday practices are increasingly regarded as unsustainable [2,3,4,5], leading to the emphasis on sustainability as the most effective alternative to the dominant developmental model. The outcome of the study clarifies whether sustainability processes, by introducing implicit aspects of equality, governance and responsibility, are fully developed in their definitions, or whether the exclusion of certain necessary elements makes them a contradiction of what they claim to be
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