From sustainable development to integral sustainability

Abstract

This article reflects the work carried out in the Water and Environment Research Program at the University of Salvador and aims to define the concept of legal-hydro-social sustainability within a broad understanding of sustainability as a central category in contemporary academic and political debate. This conceptualization is explored in the context of the current socio-environmental crisis described by Pope Francis in the encyclical Laudato si’, confronting the transformative perspectives proposed in this document with the traditional contents of sustainable development formulated from the Brundtland Report and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (hereinafter SDGs).