Outline of sustainability
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:- * Circular economy
- * Steady-state economy
- * Sustainable art
- * Sustainable advertising
- * Sustainable architecture
- ** New Classical Architecture
- * Sustainable business
- * Sustainable fashion
- * Sustainable industries
- ** Hannover Principles
- * Sustainable landscape architecture
- * Sustainable packaging
- * Sustainable procurement
- * Sustainable tourism
- * Sustainable transport
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- * Fisheries management
- * Sustainable forest management
- * Sustainable city
- ** New Urbanism
- ** Eco-cities
- ** Sustainable urban infrastructure
- ** Sustainable urban drainage systems
- ** Sustainable urban planning
- * Sustainable community
- ** Sustainable Communities Plan
- * Sustainability reportingActivity
- * Sustainable design
- * Sustainable living
- * Sustainable yield
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
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- 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
- * Climate change policy of the United States
- * Climate change in China
Population control
Population control- Birth control
- Carrying capacity
- Family planning
- Human overpopulation
- Sustainable population
- Unintended pregnancy
- Zero population growth
Environmental technology
- Sustainable energy
- Sustainable sanitation
- Renewable energy
- * Biofuel
- * Biomass
- * Geothermal power
- * Hydroelectricity
- * Solar energy
- * Tidal power
- * Wave power
- * Wind power
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