May I ask, in what field you research the sustainability? Environmentally?

I can give you example of populistic "sustainable development", which is very wide term, but explicitly doesn't set any accurate target. In opposite, there are many goals hidden as benefits of our western societies and supporting further exploitation of the planet, quite opposite as the proponents are claiming and anyone doesn't critically read the basic documents, which have been "developed" to delay the necessary changes in our behavior and mask the western crimes upon the poor world...

Regards, Milan

Thank you for your answer. More specifically I am now writing about environmental sustainability within the building sector, but I could relate it to social sustainability as well in discussion. I am now thinking that procedural justice could be a good way to approach it: there could be sustainability strategies focusing on e.g. involving and empowering the right stakeholders rather than reaching a target. But this is not my specialty, so any suggestion is welcome!

I like much more the term "environmental sustainability" as "sustainable development". It assigns that we must keep the environment, nature and societies living, operating and not destroy them, while development of any kind only destroys them…

In this context I think it is necessary to have a "target", what are you doing and why are you working, even for a strategy. But this target must be set high enough, not as a plan of (for example) building a cleaning plant (and exhaust the waste water in "next valley").

Such "target" is in environmental case more the principle – we must have all the time in our mind to keep our nature living in (at least) existent extent if we want to keep living conditions for people, too. This principle should be considered at a lower level of principles, like the question - what kind of alternative energy sources we must develop – gets the answer from the lower principle – only the clean and renewable sources, with clear definition, what this means. From such lower, but in any case well explained principles we can derive then multi-level clear rules.

So the sustainability strategies become more the ways and paths, how to consider all the time that primary principle (to keep the nature living). We can think about the projects (or targets), but if we think at its every step to this primary principle and all lower and derived rules, we find many times in different stages that the project is impossible to realize, because it ruins some of these predefined rules and principles.

I think that observing the environment from one sector (building or social) cannot function. In every step the final "target" is the Earth, and we must observe an action or better already an intention (to build something) from all possible viewpoints, for example of its influences to the social situation of workers in copper mine in Zaire, or of increasing Arctic methane emissions because of our building…

We can talk deeper about this. A year ago I started to develop the software, which would have to control such projects (which could influence to environment) with such principles and rules. Today's legislation doesn't help much. It should be changed in the way that we could compare it already preventively with our intentions. So the strategy here is to form the principles and derived rules, which will be vertically (level) compared with similarly defined data of projects, new rules and new strategies. The strategy becomes a way, how to stay close to that primary principle. And if you have that in mind, you quickly see that many our current activities are in complete disproportion with primary principle.

To see, how complex such a strategy inside one sector can be, I append a kind of cover political program to join all green and social EU parties at projects and legislation, important for environment and the planet. It shows what principles and quite clear facts would have to be important in the future and what all we would have to consider in attempts to realize our primary principle, to keep staying on the path, which doesn't turn away of the primary principle. In our every action, decision, research and even intention. And if we want to have all that in mind, we need some help, some tools which will keep our philosophy, strategies, principles and rules not violated and avoided. And that tries to be the started SW.

This program covers topics, necessary to change the mentality of our decision makes. That is the only way, the only strategy, if we want to keep walking around this planet. So read it carefully and try to include "side inputs" in your strategies, inputs for parameters, which will change the straight paths toward targets and imagined projects into the way of fulfilling our basic wish to survive here.

There is much more information in the background of this program. You will see, which aspects will be necessary to develop and just feel free to ask. Some answers you can find in my uploaded book here on RG. It is about developing such principles, which hold us on the necessary path. Well, exactly the part, which discusses also about control in building sector is not there and I can send you, if you trust me your e-mail.

My address is: [email protected]

Regards, Milan