Environmental Requirements of Intergenerational Justice for Sustainable Development

Sarmast, Bahram; Rezayan Ghayehbashi, Ahad; Moeinian, Amin; Abbasi, Afsaneh

doi:10.30473/ee.2021.56039.2284

Environmental Requirements of Intergenerational Justice for Sustainable Development

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University Of Payam- Noor, Tehran, Iran

² Research Fellow in National Research Institute for Science Policy. Futures Studies Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Tehran, Iran

³ MSc. of Public Finance, University of Tehran, Iran

⁴ MSc. of Public Administration, University of Tehran, Iran

10.30473/ee.2021.56039.2284

Abstract

Despite nearly two decades from Agenda 21 adoption, emphasizing the design and implementation of sustainable development indicators, there is no consensus on Sustainability indicators for designing and evaluating it to be acceptable to all elites and experts around the world. Recently, the issue of Intergenerational justice in sustainable development has been of great importance. This paper addresses the identification of environmental indicators related to intergenerational justice for sustainable development. The method of this research is qualitative and with respect to the target, it is an exploratory study. The participants in this study were 18 academic and executive experts selected by purposeful and non-probable methods. Interviews were analyzed through the thematic analysis method, and later the MAXQDA software was used to display the grid. The result of this research was the identification of 43 sub-themes in the form of nine themes. The themes were natural resources, social capital, laws and regulations, spatial planning, renewable energy, environmental vulnerability, environmental health and sustainability, environmental performance, and ecological footprint.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23223057.1400.9.4.6.9

Main Subjects

Environmental Education and Sustainable Development

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