Back in 2009 when I was completing my book Sustainability Management and preparing it for publication by Columbia University Press in 2010, I was also working with colleagues at Columbia’s Earth Institute and School of Continuing Education (now Professional Studies) to develop a new master’s program in Sustainability Management. I remember struggling to provide a meaningful and bounded definition for sustainability, and in the end, we decided our focus would be on “environmental” sustainability. It’s difficult to believe that a decade has passed since that time, but not hard to believe that we continue to struggle with boundaries and definitions. What was common to our thinking then and at least as typical today, was our desire to ensure that we were focusing on substance rather than symbols.
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