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All this underlines two points: first, the urgency of a framework to analyse the world we inhabit under the risk regime, the world risk society, and to reveal the hidden connections, likenesses, oppositions and new lines of conflict between Western and non-Western countries; second, the need to break the spell of the work society and to outline the basic features and visions of a European model for the post-work society.

The Brave New World of Work

Ulrich Beck

A statement of aims ‘locates’ the engagement in a broader mission (e.g., to engage residents more actively in shaping their housing, healthcare, etc). Participants and initiators alike take the first step of engaging in the process if they share the stated aims. Objectives provide the practical focus for an engagement process and the basis for measuring the success or otherwise of that process. Objectives are usually framed as outcomes (understanding was built, a decision was made) and/or outputs (a plan or report).

How to Design and Plan Public Engagement Processes: A Handbook

Wendy Faulkner, Claire Bynner

The report spells out its conception more fully as follows: Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: (1) the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and (2) the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment’s ability to meet present and future needs.

A New Professional Ethics for Sustainable Prosperity

Melissa Lane

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