Abstract
New wine in old wineskins? How the moral basis of sustainable development shifted This article traces the shift in the moral arguments in the sustainable development discourse, which occurred between 1972 and 2002. In the early 1970s ecological considerations were dominant and the zero-growth option had strong support. By the end of the 1980s the influential report of the Brundtland Commission recommended that the balance between the ecological, economic and social aspects of sustainable development ought to be maintained. From the 1990s there was a shift to poverty alleviation as the main focus of the sustainable development discourse. Representatives of the developing countries started making valuable contributions to the evolution of the concept of sustainable development and succeeded in merging the sustainable development discourse into the wider North-South debates. A decrease in wealth rather than a decrease in poverty would be the correct approach to the achievement of sustainable development. However, such a radical change of course would only be possible once considerable progress has been made towards redressing the imbalances in the current global dispensation.
Highlights
In hierdie artikel word aangetoon dat ’n duidelike verskuiwing tussen 1972 en 2002 in die morele argumente rondom die diskoers van volhoubare ontwikkeling plaasgevind het
’n radikale verandering in benadering sal egter nie moontlik wees voordat daar nie baie ver gevorder is in die uitskakeling van die ongelykhede in die huidige globale bedeling nie
Tussen 1800 en 1970 het die langste en mees ongeëwenaarde periode van ekonomiese groei in die wêreldgeskiedenis plaasgevind, met die hoogste groeikoers in die tydperk ná die Tweede Wêreldoorlog
Summary
Morele oorwegings het sterk gefigureer in die opkoms van die konsep van volhoubare ontwikkeling sedert die sewentigerjare. Daar was dus sowel ’n ekologiese as ’n sosio-ekonomiese komponent in die morele diskoerse rondom volhoubare ontwikkeling. In hierdie artikel is die redenasie dat die ekologiese morele argument in die 30 jaar tussen 1972 en 2002 relatief tot die sosio-ekonomiese morele argument ter regverdiging van volhoubare ontwikkeling verswak het. Daar word ook aangevoer dat dit ’n oorvereenvoudiging sou wees om te beweer dat die morele regverdiging van die noodsaak van volhoubare ontwikkeling van ’n. Daar was ’n komplekse interaksie van baie oorwegings in die morele diskoers rondom volhoubare ontwikkeling. Seminale tekste en uitsprake tydens die verskillende fases van die evolusie van die konsep volhoubare ontwikkeling word ontleed om klemverskuiwings aan te dui
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