Re: Sustainability Definition

The problem with this approach is that some contexts call for a clear definition. For example, what about funded research on topics like "sustainable aquaculture"? Words that have political or economic significance have to be pinned down. Bill Silvert - Original Message - >>Date: Tue,

Re: Sustainability Definition

A recent take on this with a different viewpoint is Social complexity and sustainability by Joseph A. Tainter in Ecological Complexity 3 ( 2 0 0 6 ) 9 1 - 1 0 3. Bill Silvert

Fwd: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Sustainability Definition

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Re: Sustainability Definition

See also: Freyfogle, Eric T. 2006. The Sustainability Sham. Orion 25(3): 11. Ed L. Fredrickson -Original Message- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fabrice De Clerck Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:03 AM To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD

Re: Sustainability Definition

You may want to look at: Environmental Sustainability: Universal and Non-Negotiable Robert Goodland, Herman Daly Ecological Applications,Vol. 6,No. 4(Nov., 1996) , pp. 1002-1017 This paper directly adresses this issue and points out the imp

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Re: Sustainability Definition

I think that at this point the "uncertainty" of what sustainability means is readily accepted by all and it is natural/important for us to discuss/debate the semantics of the definition, however I also feel that we do have a good general understanding of what sustainability is and we should

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Re: Sustainability Definition

As a resource manager, I worry about it a lot! It has become a tag, with the connotation that the environment is being protected - if it's sustainable, it has to be OK, right? Unfortunately, it depends on which goals are being sustained, and it almost always involves compromise to the environm

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Re: Sustainability Definition

I guess any meaningful word can be degraded by unconsidered use into a buzzword--ecology itself has been a good example of this, historically. As a planner, its fairly easy for me to find a working definition of sustainability, or rather, of sustainable development. There are two basic critiqu