Sustainable Human Development versus Sustainable Personal Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 13168
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Interests: methodology of the behavioral sciences; body image and adolescence; parenting and co-parenting; learning difficulties; mild cognitive Impairment; clinical psychology
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Dear Colleagues,
The term “sustainable” is old, but it began to become fashionable as part of binomial sustainable development as a result of the publication of the Report on Our Common Future (1987–1988), coordinated by Gro Harlem Brundtland within the framework of the United Nations. As an adjective of the term development, it was understood as something that allows us "to satisfy our current needs without compromising the capacity of future generations to satisfy theirs." This was only the starting point, and the definition of the term has become something extraordinarily complex and extensive. The Sustainability journal, since its creation in 2009, attests to the enormous variety of content that falls under the umbrella of the word sustainability.
The term is always defined in favor of the community (of society) of the present and of the future. Now, if the term human is inserted between the two words development and sustainable, what would be the definition? If, instead of human, the word were personal, would the definition be different? A scientific definition is sought for both constructs, sustainable human development and sustainable personal development, to avoid the vagueness of the term and so that they can be made operative with the intention of intervening.
The term sustainable is applied because there is a threat in the present, and it is perceived that this threat will be greater in the future. What is threatening personal development? Additionally, what is threatening to human development? (Is it understood as humans in general? Understood as the human species? For example (there are many examples, but this is a case putting them all on the table), how does over-information affect human development and personal development? Conversely, given that it is impossible to absorb all the information that comes to us, is it sustainable to be informed to a great extent only through slogans? Is it sustainable to be informed only through a spotlight? Can deliberate and thoughtful knowledge be exchanged by the knowledge provided by a slogan or a spotlight? If we also consider that simply because they are information pills, they are biased and impact us in a disruptive way to capture our attention, how does this affect us? Isn't this mass manipulation? Therefore, it is necessary to define what of human development is to be preserved, how it is to be preserved, and the reasons for preserving it. Are these personal indicators of a paradigm shift in social psychology? Are there sufficient reasons for us to speak of sustainable social psychology?
Dr. Paula Fernández
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable human development versus sustainable personal development
- social psychology versus sustainable social psychology
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