UNDERSTANDİNG SUSTAİNABLE DEVELOPMENT: AMBİGUİTY AND CONFLİCT

Abstract

The shibboleth of global environmental politics today, sustainable development has got a variety of implications and definitions. Some of these definitions and interpretations overlap, whereas some of them openly contest and conflict with one another. This controversial nature of the term turns it into an overarching discourse which becomes a parameter with many other derivatives for all developmentrelated discussions. Having too many definitions and therefore being ambiguous and unclearly defined, the politics of sustainable development is moving towards futility, or in other terms complete inefficiency. In order to settle down this interpretation debate, I propose a heuristic scheme in which the most basic perspectives are introduced while at the same time listing the basic weaknesses in this interpretation procedure, so as to clarify the inherent paradox in sustainability

Keywords

• Sustainable Development, Ambiguity, Futility

UNDERSTANDİNG SUSTAİNABLE DEVELOPMENT: AMBİGUİTY AND CONFLİCT

Abstract

Bugünkü küresel çevre politikasının sloganı haline gelen sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın birçok anlam ve tanımı bulunmaktadır. Bu anlam ve tanımların bazıları örtüşürken diğerleri açık bir biçimde birbiriyle çatışmakta ya da bir diğerini reddetmektedir. Terimin tartşmalı doğası terimi merkezi bir söylem haline dönüştürmüş ve kalkınmayla ilgili bütün tartışmalarda birçok türevi de olan bir parametre haline getirmiştir. Çok çeşitli tanımlara sahip olduğundan belirsizleşen ve tanımı zorlaşan sürdürülebilir kalkınma sonuçsuzluğa, diğer bir deyişle de topyekün başarısızlığa doğru ilerlemektedir. Çalışmada, bu yorumlama tartışmasını oturtmak ve sürdürülebilirliğin kendi içindeki paradoksu netleştirmek adına, yorumlama sürecindeki temel sorunların belirlenmesi kaydıyla,temel bakış açılarının takdim edildiği analitik bir şema sunulacaktır

Keywords

• Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma, Belirsizlik, Sonuçsuzluk

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