sustainability between necessity, contingency and impossibility可持续性之间的必要性、应急和不可能的.pdf

Sustainability 2009, 1, 1388-1411; doi:10.3390/su1041388 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 /journal/sustainability Review Sustainability between Necessity, Contingency and Impossibility Karl Bruckmeier School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Box 700, Gothenburg, SE-40530, Sweden; E-Mail: karl.bruckmeier@globalstudies.gu.se; Tel.: +46-31-7684-4940; Fax: +46-31-786-4933 Received: 3 November 2009 / Accepted: 7 December 2009 / Published: 16 December 2009 Abstract: Sustainable use of natural resources seems necessary to maintain functions and services of eco- and social systems in the long run. Efforts in policy and science for sustainable development have shown the splintering of local, national and global strategies. Sustainability becomes contingent and insecure with the actors´ conflicting knowledge, interests and aims, and seems even impossible through the “rebound”-effect. To make short and long term requirements of sustainability coherent requires critical, comparative and theoretical analysis of the problems met. For this purpose important concepts and theories are discussed in this review of recent interdisciplinary literature about resource management. Keywords: sustainability; sustainable development; natural resource management; natu