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The implications of sustainable development for industry and employment in the 1990s

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Sustainable development has increasingly come to be seen as a concept which can reconcile the tensions between economic development and environmental protection. However, the concept is a vague one and little work has been undertaken to examine the practical implications of adopting sustainable development as a guiding principle. This paper examines how sustainable development can be defined, and some of the contradictions involved with the concept. The policy implications of sustainable development are examined, with a particular emphasis on industry and employment.

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His research interests are in sustainable development and local economic development. The work on which this paper is based was undertaken for the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Manchester.

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Gibbs, D. The implications of sustainable development for industry and employment in the 1990s. Environmentalist 14, 183–192 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01907137

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