Current usage
Sustainability is regarded as a "normative concept". This means it is based on what people value or find desirable: "The quest for sustainability involves … 詳細

Environmental impacts of humans
There are several methods to measure or describe human impacts on Earth. They include the ecological … 詳細

There are many reasons why sustainability is so difficult to achieve. These reasons have the name sustainability barriers. Before addressing these … 詳細

Issues around economic growth
Eco-economic decoupling is an idea to resolve tradeoffs between economic growth and environmental … 詳細

Development of three dimensions
Scholars usually distinguish three different areas of sustainability. These are the environmental, the … 詳細

Environmental and economic dimensions
People often debate the relationship between the environmental and economic dimensions of sustainability. In academia, this is discussed under … 詳細

Components and characteristics
The European Environment Agency defines a sustainability transition as "a fundamental and wide-ranging transformation of a socio … 詳細