Sustainability
This chapter explains the importance of broadening the purview of sustainability to include environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The rationale for this more comprehensive view lies in the fact that people face multiple vulnerabilities due to disaster-related risks, macro-economic shocks, political turmoil, and ever-expanding social inequalities. Therefore, this chapter argues for the need to anchor all actions in the pathway of strong sustainability as sustaining ecosystems and their services and ensuring environmental rights for present and future generations are important from the point of view of intergenerational equity. This can be achieved through adopting an ‘institutionally integrated view’ of a freedom-centred approach that strengthens the foundations of sustainable human development through promotion of basic capabilities, collective freedoms, and social cohesion.