Geographic perspectives on sustainability: Towards a conceptual framework

IF 4.7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Environmental Development Pub Date : 2024-11-21 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101121

Miguel Angel Ramirez , Ivan Lizarazo

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Abstract

Understanding sustainability poses conceptual and practical challenges due to its myriad interpretations. Geographers have endeavored to refine the concept from various perspectives by drawing from their environmental research tradition. However, a comprehensive examination of geographical contributions to the sustainability discourse remains elusive. This article fills this gap by scrutinizing how sustainability has been conceptualized across diverse geographic epistemologies over the past two decades through a literature review. Furthermore, it proposes a novel multiscale conceptual framework for land use change dynamics. The review underscores geography's reliance on external theories to grapple with sustainability and advocates for a robust conceptual framework to deepen comprehension. This framework elucidates the relative significance and intricate interplay among sustainability dimensions within the complex nexus of social and environmental subsystems, which could help with territorial management.

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可持续性的地理视角：建立概念框架

由于可持续发展有多种解释，因此对其的理解在概念上和实践上都提出了挑战。地理学家从环境研究传统出发，努力从不同角度完善这一概念。然而，对地理学在可持续发展论述中所做贡献的全面研究仍然遥遥无期。本文填补了这一空白，通过文献综述仔细研究了过去二十年来不同地理认识论是如何将可持续性概念化的。此外，文章还为土地利用变化动态提出了一个新颖的多尺度概念框架。该综述强调了地理学在处理可持续性问题时对外部理论的依赖，并主张建立一个强大的概念框架以加深理解。该框架阐明了社会和环境子系统复杂关系中可持续性各维度的相对重要性和错综复杂的相互作用，有助于领土管理。

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Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

CiteScore

8.40

自引率

1.90%

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审稿时长

74 days

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