The Sustainable Development Institute logo also serves as its research and extension theoretical model. This theoretical model conceptualizes sustainable development as the process of maintaining the balance and reconciling the inherent tensions between the various dimensions of sustainability. Each dimension is understood to be dynamic, both in respect to its internal organization, and in relationship to each of the other five dimensions of the sustainable development process. The model takes as its point of departure the change within one dimension will impact other dimensions in an ever-unfolding diffusion of responses to change, whether externally driven or inherent to the dynamism of a specific dimension. It is this interactive process, which bounds the research agenda of the Sustainable Development Institute and situates both the academic programming and scholarly inquiry of Institute initiatives.
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