Franck-Dominique Vivien talks about the current limits of the sustainable development, which is often considered not much operational and very differently interpreted. He evokes the different notions which emerged the last years, like the green economy or the degrowth.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, degrowth, green growth

Franck-Dominique Vivien presents the main international conferences about environment and sustainable development. He especially proposes a focus on the Stockholm summit (1972), the Rio summit (1992), the Johannesburg summit (2002) and the Rio+20 summit.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, Stockholm Summit, Rio summit, Rio+20 summit, Johannesburg summit

Franck-Dominique Vivien shows that the sustainable development is a controversial subject for the economists since the seventies, and that this debate is centered around two notions: weak sustainability and strong sustainability. He presents those notions and shows their limits.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, economics, weak sustainability, strong sustainability

Bruno Villalba shows that the sustainable development is a political proposal which implies changes in the forms, the temporalities and the scales of decision. Then he discusses the benefits and the risks of the processes started for several decades.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : institutions, sustainable development, political science

After a discussion about the pertinence of the "Northern countries" and "Southern countries" denominations, Alban Verchère is interested in the representations and in the connections maintained by the northern and southern countries with the sustainable development.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : representations, sustainable development, southern countries, northern countries

Fabienne Ruffin discusses the contributions of geography in the understanding of sustainable development. She examines this question on the territories scale and worldwide, underlining the importance of the public authorities, of education and of memory.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, geography, territories

Anne Jegou talks about the integration of sustainable development in school and university geography. After an examination of the practices, she proposes a case study: the lagoon of Valencia (Spain).
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, geography

Catherine Figuière presents the Brundtland report, which was, in 1987, the first to propose the concept of sustainable development. The explains the context of the Brundtland report, analyses its impact through three lessons, and she concludes discussing the limits of this report.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : sustainable development, Brundtland report

Sylvie Ferrari talks about ethics in a perspective of sustainable development. These ethics, which is mostly concerned about the relations between current and future generations, is viewed through two notions: a weak sustainability and a strong sustainability.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : ethics, environment, sustainable development, weak sustainability, strong sustainability

Arnaud Diemer presents the Meadows report Limits to growth, its context (the beginning of the seventies), its architecture, its role in the emergence of the sustainable development concept, but also the reactions it set off by several economists.
Mot(s) clés libre(s) : resources, growth, sustainable development, Meadows report