The issue of a socially and environmentally sustainable future is high on the global agenda. We now face problems of an exceptionally complex nature. Sustainability is therefore acquiring a new meaning as an inclusive concept, where its scope extends far beyond purely environmental dimensions.
Many policies and programmes now take on board a new vocabulary of sustainable development. This includes a range of environmental, financial, social or economic issues. Movements around sustainability and ecology in the past decade changed our approaches and thinking in radical and inclusive ways. Even in everyday actions, systems thinking is now stronger than ever. We can calculate an intellectual carbon footprint – even for innovative e-learning...
Trends that capitalize new technologies in a sustainable way are now critically important. Moving consciously from quantitative towards qualitative growth, from technological evolution to innovation, implies the development of smart approaches for human-centered actions.
