Table of Contents of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development, edition 2025.
Part 1: Sustainable Development, the voyage of discovery of the twenty-first century
1. The Adventure: New paradigms
1.1. Part 1: Learning to think differently
1.2. Part 2: Zooming out to the big picture
1.3. Part 3: Zooming in on the three Ps
1.4. Part 4: Zooming out to the Anthropocene
2. The Complexity: People, Planet and Profit
2.1. Everything is interconnected
2.2. Two dimensions: Place and Time
2.3. Complexity
2.4. The Tragedy of the Commons
3. The Urgency: Climate change has started
3.1. The problem
3.2. Current and foreseeable consequences
3.3. Tipping points: Incalculable consequences
3.4. SDG 13: Climate action Figure 2.5: People, Planet and Profit in imbalance
Part 2: Zooming out to global society
Figure 4.5: Population of some countries and regions - past and future
4. Now, soon and later: Thinking from visions of the future
4.1. Growth models
4.2. Scenarios
4.3. Dreams and ideals
4.4. Responsibility
5. Here, there and far away: Global entanglement
5.1. The origins of today's world
5.2. Everything gets bigger
5.3. The shrinking human
5.4. Responsibility
6. Agenda 2030: Global Goals
6.1. The seventeen Sustainable Development Goals
6.2. The SDGs: Reliability and validity
6.3. SDG 17: Sincere commitment
6.4. The value of the SDGs
7. Agenda 2100: Global transition
7.1. Improvements, innovations, transitions
7.2. Mitigation: The energy transition in Europe
7.3. Adaptation: Floating cities
7.4. Transition management
Part 3: Zooming in on Planet, Profit, People
8. Planet: Living with nature
8.1. The Sixth Extinction
8.2. SDG 15: The Nature Restoration Agenda
8.3. SDG 2: Sustainable agriculture and food
8.4. SDG 14: Water, fisheries and aquaculture
9. Profit: Sustainable business
9.1. SDG 9: Circular economy, true prices
9.2. SDG 12: Value, profit
9.3. SDG 8: Economic growth, dematerialisation
9.4. SDG 12: ESG, Corporate Social Responsibility
10. People: A dignified life
10.1. SDG 5 and 11: Emancipation, empowerment, resilience
10.2. SDG 1-7: Multidimensional Poverty
10.3. SDG 10: Inequality
10.4. SDG 17: The social contract
Part 4: Professional and personal action perspectives
11. Thinking differently: Who owns the Earth?
11.1. The Anthropocene
11.2. Four Spheres: Words, Narratives, Policies, Effects
11.3. Science, ethics and identity
11.4. SDG 16: Peace
12. You, human
12.1. The dream: Intrinsic Sustainability Goals (ISGs)
12.2. SDG 4: The Learning Society
12.3. RESFIA+D: The Sustainably Competent Professional
12.4. SDG 5: Self-actualisation. The Pledge