ABSTRACT
Sustainability is civilisation’s main project for the twenty-first century, just as democracy was the new project of civilisation in the nineteenth century, and the welfare state was the new project of civilisation in the twentieth century in Europe and North America (Hvid 2006). It is still quite unclear what sustainability really is (as is also the case with ‘democracy’ and ‘welfare’), however, numerous articles, reports and official documents state that sustainability is based on three pillars: environmental protection and regeneration, social protection and development, and economic regeneration and development.
