Print Email Facebook Twitter Rethinking Sustainable Development: Considering How Different Worldviews Envision “Development” and “Quality of Life” Title Rethinking Sustainable Development: Considering How Different Worldviews Envision “Development” and “Quality of Life” Author Hedlund-de Witt, A. Faculty Applied Sciences Department BT/Biotechnology Date 2014-11-20 Abstract The concept of sustainable development does not articulate what needs to be sustained, developed, or how, and is consequently intersubjective and intercultural. I therefore argue that it is essential to consider different worldviews when discussing sustainable development, and I offer broad, provisional suggestions as to how we can begin doing this. I first discuss how the notion of sustainable development at its heart is an attempt to unite conservation with growth. I then consider how different worldviews relate to this unitary ideal, by articulating how they envision “development” and “quality of life”. I do this by drawing on the Integrative Worldview Framework, which distinguishes between multiple, ideal-typical worldviews. However, I argue that more important than any typology of worldviews is the reflexive attitude a worldview-perspective supports. I conclude with implications for more reflexive and inclusive forms of policy-making, also in light of the to-be-formulated Sustainable Development Goals. Subject Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)worldviewsthe Integrative Worldview Framework (IWF)developmenquality of lifebeyond GDPreflexivitypluralismintegrationOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e06e569d-257f-4d20-84f2-e74f3a1d34c1 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/su6118310 Publisher MDPI ISSN 2071-1050 Source Sustainability, 6 (11), 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2014 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Files PDF deWitt_2014.pdf 692.51 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e06e569d-257f-4d20-84f2-e74f3a1d34c1/datastream/OBJ/view