Achieving Sustainability
Reform or Transformation?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23346751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William E Rees (0000-0002-1439-3162, School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 343-361 |
| Publication date | 1995-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Planning Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-4122 • E-ISSN: 1552-6593 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/088541229500900402 |
| OpenAlex | W2027244193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
| References cited | 23 |
We have reached a unique juncture in human ecological history, one requiring a radical reconfiguration of planning values and goals. The "ecological footprint" of the global economy is already larger than the planet, yet a quarter of humanity still lives in poverty, the human family is expanding by 90 million a year, and material demands everywhere are rising. An unlikely tenfold reduction in the energy and material intensity of economic activity would be required to accommodate anticipated economic growth safely, posing an enormous challenge to planners in facilitating the transition to sustainability. Failure enhances the considerable possibility of global disaster.
Business · Ecological footprint · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental resource management · Humanity · Natural resource economics · Political science · Poverty · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Ecology · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Rhine Cities - Urban Flood Integration (UFI)
Globalization and Sustainability
Environmentalism in periods of rapid societal transformation
Urbanismo sostenible. El camino de las ciudades en la Agenda 2030
Accounting for Plural Cognitive Framings of Growth and Sustainability
Personal values that drive the choice for green apartments in Nanjing China
Hardin’s legacy as a need for a ‘commoning turn’ in planning
Interregional sustainability
Making the linkages between climate change adaptation and spatial planning in Malawi
Transformative effectiveness
Exploring the Nexus
Sustainable development
The double negative approach to sustainability
Environment, economy and society
Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene
Policy, Priorities and Action
Sustainability programs and deliberative processes
The Adoption of Sustainable Development Policies and Techniques in U.S. Cities
Sustainability
Environmental Justice and the Sustainable City
Moving the Middle Ahead
Sociotechnical Transitions and Urban Planning
Reconciling Livability and Sustainability
Planning as Sustainable Development
The Reinvention of Public Green Space
Untangling ‘integration’ in urban development policy debates
Who shares? Participation in the sharing economy in the U.S
Transformative change in context—stakeholders’ understandings of leverage at the forest–climate nexus
Toward a Resource‐Efficient Built Environment
Beyond the Food Web Connections to a Deeper Industrial Ecology
How Possible is Sustainable Urban Development? An Analysis of Planners' Perceptions about New Urbanism, Smart Growth and the Ecological City
Be Realistic
Urban hinterlands—the case of an Israeli town ecological footprint
Exporting natural capital
What do Canadians think about economic growth, prosperity and the environment
Importing terrestrial biocapacity
Nature, urban development and sustainability – What new elements are needed for a more comprehensive understanding
Sustainability and the Childe thesis – What are the effects of local characteristics and conditions on sustainable development policy
Bridging sustainability and the social economy
Revisiting carrying capacity
Seeking urban sustainability on the world stage
Urban ecological footprints
Cumulative environmental assessment and global change
Measuring urban sustainability
Paradigms and paradoxes
Conserving biodiversity takes a plan
Conceptualising Sustainability in UK Urban Regeneration
Crowdsourcing urban sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance
Proposta de um modelo de análise do comprometimento com a sustentabilidade
Grassroots Innovation for Urban Sustainability
What Makes a Good Sustainable Development Plan? An Analysis of Factors That Influence Principles of Sustainable Development
Toward Sustainable Communities
Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
Human Appropriation of the Products of Photosynthesis
Environmental Change and Violent Conflict
Choices without Prices without Apologies
Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation
Steady-State Economics
Indicators of sustainable development
Capital theory and the measurement of sustainable development
Cowboys, cornucopians and long-run sustainability
Investing in natural capital
Limits to growth’ and ‘sustainable development’
From microscopic to macroscopic theories
Cost-benefit analyses and environmental policy
Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity
Economic Theory and Exhaustible Resources
In Defence of Economic Growth
On the Political Consequences of Scarcity and Economic Decline
Economic growth and the environment
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,65 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2023 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 49 |