Searching for Sustainability in an Encroaching and Transforming Environment

Abstract

Sustainability is defined as the ability of a society, ecosystem, or other ongoing system to continue functioning into the define future without being forced into declining through the exhaustion or overloading of the key resources on which that system depends. Aspects of sustainability are resources (extraction, production, consumption); waste (generation, disposition); ecosystems (manipulation, displacement, disruption); humans/communities (well-being, physical mental, social and financial).

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 23, 2004
Accession Number
ADA493161

Entities

People

  • David S. Eady

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Availability
  • Commerce
  • Costs
  • Deficiencies
  • Department Of Defense
  • Droughts
  • Ecosystems
  • Environment
  • Information Operations
  • Materials
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Regional Planning
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Water

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Economics
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.