Abstract

Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, 1992, sustainability has become a key concept for the political and academic discussion of a common vision for the future development of a world-society. The authors of the following article focus on sustainability as a holistic principle in six different dimensions: ecological as the base of the system of all living beings, economic, political, social and pedagogic as areas of human acting, and a spiritual-ethical dimension as a fundamental attitude. The fundamental insights are based on the Earth Charter, which was elaborated with contributions from Paulo Freire (2000, p. 66–67) and Moacir Gadotti (2010, p.13–27). The article was written in a German academic context and aims to inspire interdisciplinary discussion from an international perspective.

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