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The concept of sustainability dates from pre-industrial days to now. In this article you'll also find a visual timeline of the history of sustainability.
Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. [2][1] Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social. [1] .
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment (Marsh 1864). The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.
Sustainability: A History is a substantially revised second edition that takes account of climate change policy, climate activism, and the expansion of the sustainability movement since the first addition appeared in 2014.
Sustainable development, approach to social, economic, and environmental planning that attempts to balance the social and economic needs of present and future human generations with the imperative of preserving, or preventing undue damage to, the natural environment.
Sustainability, the long-term viability of a community, set of social institutions, or societal practice. Sustainability is usually understood as a form of intergenerational ethics that accommodates the economic, social, and environmental needs of current and future generations.
In the classical and critical political economy in the nineteenth century, sustainability became a core theme of debates about economic growth, the natural limits of resources and environmental pollution in industrial society.
Sustainability first emerged as an explicit social, environmental, and economic ideal in the late 1970s and 1980s. By the 1990s, it had become a familiar term in the world of policy wonkery—President Bill Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development, for instance—but the embrace wasn’t universal.
Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what sustainability means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual...
In the 18th century, sustainability was laid down first as a principle of the German forestry industry. The first documented idea of sustainability was written by the Saxon mining director Hans Carl von Carlowitz (1645-1714) from Freiberg (Saxony).