Outline of sustainability
Overview of and topical guide to sustainability
Venn diagram of sustainable development: at the confluence of three constituent parts |
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sustainability:
Sustainability – capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship and responsible resource management.
Essence of sustainability
- Environmentalism
- Environmental ethics
- Planetary boundaries
- Sustainable development
- Sustainability science
- Sustainability accounting
- Sustainability governance
- Sustainability education
Taxonomy
Sustainability is divided into two main branches: sustainability science and sustainability governance. Each of these branches is divided into a number of subfields:
Sub-fields of sustainability science
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental psychology
- Environmental philosophy
- Environmental law
- Sustainability measurement
Sub-fields of sustainability governance
- Economic sector:
- Political
- Organizational
- Activity
Related disciplines
- Conservation biology
- Ecological humanities
- Environmental biotechnology
- Environmental chemistry
- Environmental design
- Environmental economics
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental history
- Environmental law
- Environmental psychology
- Environmental science
- Environmental sociology
- Green politics
Biodiversity
see also: Biodiversity
- Biosecurity
- Ecosystem services
- Ecosystem-based management
- Ecosystem management
- Endangered species
- Holocene extinction event
- Invasive species
- Nature conservation
Levels of biological organisation
Politics of sustainability
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
- International reports and agreements
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
- Brundtlandt Commission Report, 1983
- Our Common Future, 1987
- Earth Summit (1992)
- Agenda 21 (1992)
- Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
- ICPD Programme of Action (1994)
- Earth Charter
- Millennium Declaration (2000)
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)
- Politics of global warming
Population control
- Birth control
- Carrying capacity
- Family planning
- Human overpopulation
- Sustainable population
- Unintended pregnancy
- Zero population growth
Environmental technology
Energy conservation
Over consumption
- Anti-consumerism
- Ecological footprint
- Ethical consumerism
- Tragedy of the commons
- Micro-sustainability
Food
- Food security
- Local food
- Permaculture
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable gardening
- Sustainable fisheries
- Urban horticulture
Water
- Water footprint
- Water crisis
- Water efficiency
- Water conservation
Materials
Sustainability organizations
Sustainability publications
Sustainability (journal)
Sustainability advocates
- Category:Sustainability advocates
See also
- Sustainability lists
- List of climate change topics
- List of conservation issues
- List of conservation topics
- List of environmental agreements
- List of environmental health hazards
- List of environmental issues
- List of environmental organizations
- Lists of environmental topics
- List of environmental studies topics
- List of global sustainability statistics
- Sustainability glossaries
References
sustainability at Wikipedia's sister projects
- Definitions from Wiktionary
- Media from Commons
- News from Wikinews
- Quotations from Wikiquote
- Texts from Wikisource
- Textbooks from Wikibooks
- Resources from Wikiversity
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- Anthropization
- Anti-consumerism
- Circular economy
- Earth Overshoot Day
- Ecological footprint
- Ethical
- Green consumption
- Micro-sustainability
- Over-consumption
- Product stewardship
- Simple living
- Social return on investment
- Steady-state economy
- Sustainability
- Sustainable
- Systemic change resistance
- Tragedy of the commons
- Advertising
- Art
- Business
- City
- Climate finance
- Community
- Disinvestment
- Eco-capitalism
- Eco-cities
- Eco-investing
- Eco-socialism
- Ecovillage
- Environmental finance
- Green economy
- Construction
- Fashion
- Finance
- Gardening
- Geopark
- Green
- Greening
- Impact investing
- Landscape
- Livelihood
- Living
- Market
- Organic movement
- Organizations
- Procurement
- Refurbishment
- Socially responsible business
- Socially responsible marketing
- Sanitation
- Sourcing
- Space
- Sustainability organization
- Tourism
- Transport
- Urban drainage systems
- Urban infrastructure
conferences
- UN Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
- Brundtlandt Commission Report (1983)
- Our Common Future (1987)
- Earth Summit (1992)
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992)
- Agenda 21 (1992)
- Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
- Lisbon Principles (1997)
- Earth Charter (2000)
- UN Millennium Declaration (2000)
- Earth Summit 2002 (Rio+10, Johannesburg)
- UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20, 2012)
- Sustainable Development Goals (2015)