Resources to support this step include common frameworks, models, and approaches to defining sustainability. Future resources will also include connections to Indigenous understandings of sustainability.
Guiding Questions:
- How can sustainability be understood?
- What are the ways of thinking and framing?
Resources
Common Sustainability Frameworks
Summary: An outline of common sustainability frameworks, their purpose, context, and uses. This includes Sustainable Development Goals, Environment Social and Governance, and Planetary Boundaries frameworks.
Purpose: Provide context on common ways of thinking about sustainability
Ways of Framing Sustainability
Summary: A description of different structures for considering sustainability including three pillars, overlapping circles, and embedded models.
Purpose: Provide context on the potential relationships between different elements of sustainability.
Example Definitions of Sustainability
Summary: A collection of understandings and definitions of sustainability used by different groups in different contexts.
Purpose: Provide information on what peers have landed on and what a potential definition or understanding may look and sound like. This could also help determine what pieces align with your team and department.
