Sustainable development has come to refer to the challenges of balancing the need to reduce global inequalities with reducing threats to the planet's systems from industrialised production and consumption. But what 'sustainable development' do we have today? What is its history, how has it developed this way, and what are its possible futures? The social sciences aim to offer insight on the underlying causes of the challenges of our time, be they:
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