Sustainability, Vol. 6, Pages 8342-8347: Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges (Sustainability)

Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e., local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how exactly `sustainable` societies will or should look. It does not give us a step-by-step pattern to follow, but something like a frame of what ought to be done in order to transform today`s societies, including their economies. [...]