Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability
This ambitious book outlines the theoretical and practical implications of the recent technological revolution of human/non-human relations for social researchers, and in so doing, seeks to develop more adequate theoretical and methodological models for s
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spectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability Foreword by Enrico Giovannini
Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability
Mariella Nocenzi • Alessandra Sannella Editors
Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability Foreword by Enrico Giovannini
Editors Mariella Nocenzi Department of Communication and Social Research Sapienza University of Rome Rome, Italy
Alessandra Sannella Department of Human, Social and Health Sciences University of Cassino Cassino, Italy
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Foreword
When I joined the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as Chief Statistician in January 2001, the organization was running an innovative project on “sustainable development,” the first large-scale project run by an international organization on this theme. It was a challenging project, both politically and analytically. At that time, some countries (especially the USA) were clearly against the involvement of the OECD in a project dealing with sustainable development, and thus the trade-off between economic development and the protection of the environment. Other countries supported the project (even financially), as they were convinced that only a holistic approach to sustainable development would allow for a true “paradigm shift” in policy making. From an analytical perspective, the project was also extremely challenging. The Statistics Directorate was responsible for defining a statistical framework to measure the sustainability of a socio-economic system, which implied the design of a
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