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Having survived the financial crisis of 2008, sustainable development is now negotiating what author Alan AtKisson calls the ‘tectonic plates of world order’. Sustainable development, he argues, has become mainstream as a result of the Earth Summit and additional grassroots actions of the 1990s. To advance a sustainable future, he indicates the necessity of a global reset for sustainable development. Such a reset should reassert its more radical role for non-negotiable rights of people and planet – its primary position with regards to, rather than instead of, green economy or green growth.
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The phrase is used 19 times in the Rio+20 outcome document The Future We Want (2012).
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Alan AtKisson (2009) ‘Pushing Reset on Sustainable Development’, October, Paper #1 in the ‘Sustainable Development Insights’ series, published by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Long-Range Future, Boston University; and the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership, initially convened by the United Nations Division for Sustainable Development, Boston, MA.
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Argues that a green economy is a necessary but far from sufficient condition for sustainable development, and should not be allowed to monopolize the spotlight
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Atkisson, A. A Fresh Start for Sustainable Development. Development 56, 52–57 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2013.2
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