TY - JOUR AU - Dusseldorp, Marc PY - 2018/07/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Goal Conflicts – No Way Around Them: The Case for a Revision of the Integrative Concept of Sustainable Development JF - TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis JA - TATuP VL - 27 IS - 2 SE - Research DO - 10.14512/tatup.27.2.61 UR - https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/134 SP - 61-67 AB - <p><em>The Integrative Concept of Sustainable Development is amongst the most prominent attempts in German-speaking countries to operationalise the notion of sustainability. Since its development around the turn of the millennium it has been applied in numerous projects with a considerable impact. However, a critical analysis and revision of the concept&nbsp; is still pending – but would be necessary, not least in view of the&nbsp; arising application problems. This paper aims at contributing to this&nbsp; concern. I appears that the analyses of the Integrative Concept can also give new impulses to the sustainability debate in general as well as to&nbsp; the question of dealing with goal conflicts in particular. Most notably, the concept of sustainable development needs to be operationalised&nbsp; using satisficing norms which cannot be weighed up: Only these norms can guide the development of measures effective enough the realise a sustainable development.</em></p> ER -