Navigating bends of research on sustainable development

Sustainable Development is an area of both the ‘Activists’ and the ‘Academicians’. Lately, academicians have worked based on the demand of the Activists, who represent some sort of consumerism. The domain of knowledge in this blend is the creation of the academicians and the activists. The nature of this knowledge most of the time is normative and is guided by the philosophy of Nested Model. The navigational bends are in the bounded frame of four; a) the broad areas (options) of the research, b) the quality of research and required strategies, c) the ethics pertaining to research approach in sustainability, and d) Political views that these researchers augur as outcomes. The researcher has tried to evolve in this paper a balance among all the four]