Green issues Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe Global Greens Charter: ecological wisdom · social justice · participatory democracy · nonviolence · sustainability · respect diversity Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that societ ...

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• Sustainability - Definition
• Sustainability - Sustainability Index
• Sustainability - Concepts and issues
• Sustainability - Implementing Agenda 21
• Sustainability - Types of sustainability
• Sustainability - Development sustainability
• Sustainability - Bibliography

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Sustainability, Sustainability - Definition, Sustainability - Sustainability Index, Sustainability - Concepts and issues, Sustainability - Implementing Agenda 21, Sustainability - Types of sustainability, Sustainability - Development sustainability, Sustainability - Bibliography

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Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) is roughly defined by the following formula. ISEW = personal consumption + non-defensive public expenditures - defensive private expenditures + capital formation + services from domestic labour - costs of environmental degradation - depreciation of natural capita ...

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Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare - Definition, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare - History

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In ecology, carrying capacity is the measure of an environment, or habitat, to indefinitely sustain the population of a particular species in a steady-state population density. An alternative definition for carrying capacity is: the maximum population of a particular species a particular region can support without hindering future generations' ability to maintain the same population. The carrying capacity of an environment will vary for different species in different habitats, and can change over time due to a species impact on ...

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sustainable: Maintainable; able to be kept up or continued consistently over a period of time.

(See also: Sustainable, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

The Natural Step's definition of sustainability includes four system conditions (scientific principles) that lead to a sustainable society. These conditions, that must be met in order to have a sustainable society, are as follows: In a sustainable society, nature is not subject to systematically increasing: concentrations of substances extracted from the Earth's crust; concentrations of substances produced by society; degradation by physical means and, in that society. . . the ab ...

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The Natural Step, The Natural Step - Towards sustainability, The Natural Step - Overview of the science, The Natural Step - The System Conditions of sustainability, The Natural Step - On making change happen

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Organic foods, like food in general, can be grouped into two categories, fresh and processed, based on production methods, availability and consumer perception. Fresh food is seasonal and highly perishable. Fresh produce — vegetables and fruits — is the most available type of organic food, and closely associated with organic farming. It is often purchased directly from the growers, at farmers' markets, from on-farm stands, through speciality food stores, and through community-supported agriculture (CSA) projec ...

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Organic food, Organic food - Types of organic food, Organic food - Identifying organic food, Organic food - Legal definition, Organic food - Preservatives, Organic food - Claimed advantages over conventional farming, Organic food - Less toxic, Organic food - Energy and environmental, Organic food - Tastier, Organic food - Nutritional value, Organic food - GMO free, Organic food - Summary, Organic food - Related movements, Organic food - Facts and statistics

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Various alternative organic standards are emerging. They generally bypass formal certification, which can be expensive and cumbersome, and provide their own definition of organic food. One such, the Authentic Food standard, proposed by leading US organic farmer Eliot Coleman, includes criteria that are incompatible with current agribusiness: All foods are produced by the growers who sell them. Fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, eggs and meat products are produced within a 50-mile radius of their place of their final sal ...

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Organic food, Organic food - Types of organic food, Organic food - Identifying organic food, Organic food - Legal definition, Organic food - Preservatives, Organic food - Claimed advantages over conventional farming, Organic food - Less toxic, Organic food - Energy and environmental, Organic food - Tastier, Organic food - Nutritional value, Organic food - GMO free, Organic food - Summary, Organic food - Related movements, Organic food - Facts and statistics

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Definitions of organic food vary. Organics can be difficult to explain by empirical measurement. For one thing, the majority of food industry research of the last 100 years has been focused solely on developing chemical agriculture and modern food processing -- almost nothing has been done to formally investigate side effects of conventional agriculture that are not immediately obvious. Also, organics is an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" proposition, concerned in large part with what NOT to do -- "as much as possible, let Nature do its th ...

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Organic food, Organic food - Types of organic food, Organic food - Identifying organic food, Organic food - Legal definition, Organic food - Preservatives, Organic food - Claimed advantages over conventional farming, Organic food - Less toxic, Organic food - Energy and environmental, Organic food - Tastier, Organic food - Nutritional value, Organic food - GMO free, Organic food - Summary, Organic food - Related movements, Organic food - Facts and statistics

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The Report of the Brundtland Commission, Our Common Future, was published by Oxford University Press in 1987. The full text of the Brundtland Report can be downloaded as a scanned copy of the UN General Assembly document A/42/427 - a 16 Mbyte [pdf] file. The report deals with sustainable development and the change of politics needed for achieving that. The definition of this term in the report is quite well known and often cited: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the abi ...

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Brundtland Commission, Brundtland Commission - Brundtland Report

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Definition and meaning of definitive host:

definitive host - in a parasite's life cycle, it is the host organism in which the parasite reproduces sexually

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of Biodiversity Conservation Information System:

Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS) - The purpose of the BCIS Framework for Information Sharing is to support BCIS Members and others making decisions on the conservation and sustainable use of living resources. BCIS is a consortium of ten international conservation organizations and programs of IUCNÑThe World Conservation Union. BCIS Members collectively represent the single greatest global source of biodiversity conservation information in the world. BCIS is a framework within which the MembersÕ networks work together toward a common goal: to support environmentally sound decision-making and action by facilitating access to biodiversity data and information

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of WW2BW, White Water to Blue Water Initiative:

WW2BW (White Water to Blue Water Initiative) - the White Water to Blue Water (WW2BW) Initiative was formulated in 2002 during the World Summit on Sustainable Development. WW2BW responds to the World SummitÕs ÒOceansÓ agenda with an integrated approach to sustainable use of water resources. In an effort to address water pollution and scarcity, United States government agencies, including the State Department, NOAA, USAID, as well as the United Nations, governments of the Wider Caribbean Region, and a number of non-governmental organizations have come together to plan and implement programs which will lead to the conservation and sustainable management of both freshwater and coastal marine resources in the Caribbean. WW2BW stimulates partnerships to promote integrated watershed and marine-based ecosystems management in support of sustainable development. Four thematic areas are supported: integrated watershed management, marine ecosystem-based management, sustainable tourism, and environmentally sound marine transportation. The outcome of the WW2BW partnership in the Wider Caribbean may serve as the blueprint for future programs on watershed and marine ecosystem-based management in Africa and the South Pacific

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of maximum sustainable yield:

maximum sustainable yield - the maximum number of a food or game population that can be harvested without harming the population's ability to grow back; the largest average catch or yield that can continuously be taken from a stock under existing environmental conditions

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of sustainable development:

sustainable development - those efforts to guide economic growth in an environmentally sound manner with an emphasis on natural resource conservation

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of sustainable yield:

sustainable yield - the number or weight of organisms in a population that can be harvested without reducing the population biomass from year to year, assuming that environmental conditions remain the same

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of geostrophic current:

geostrophic current - a flow that sustains a balance between Coriolis deflection and a pressure gradient

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Definition and meaning of sustainability science:

sustainability science - a multi-disciplinary approach to science that recognizes the limitations of traditional scientific inquiry in dealing with the complex reality of social institutions interacting with natural phenomena. Sustainability science seeks to improve on the substantial but limited understanding of nature-society interactions gained in recent decades. This has been achieved through work in the environmental sciences estimating and evaluating human impacts, and evidence from social and development studies that takes into account environmental influences on human well-being. Urgently needed is a better understanding of the complex dynamic interactions between society and nature so that the trend towards increasing vulnerability is reversed

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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The objective of ecological economics is planning for sustainable development of ecosystems and societies. It distinguishes itself from neoclassical economics primarily by its assertion that economics is a subfield of ecology, in that ecology deals with the energy and matter transactions of life and the earth, and the human economy is by definition contained within this system. Ecological economists challenge the common normative approach taken towards natural resources, claiming that it undervalues natural capital by displaying it as interc ...

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Ecological economics, Ecological economics - Concept, Ecological economics - Example of Sustainable Development Policy, Ecological economics - Criticism and Alternatives, Ecological economics - History

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Green building - U.S. Green Building Council. The U.S. Green Building Council has developed some definitions of what constitutes sustainable design of green buildings through its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED [2] green building rating system. The USGBC is one of the organizations in the World attempting to define what green building design should entail. In 2003, Canada and the USGBC formed the Canadian Green Building Council to adapt the LEED standard to the canadian reallity. The Green Building Council of Australia ...

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Green building, Green building - Green building in the U.S., Green building - U.S. Green Building Council, Green building - Legislation, Green building - Noted Green Designers & Builders, Green building - Sustainable town developments

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