Engineering:Outline of sustainability
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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to sustainability
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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
- Environmental impact of aviation
- Green infrastructure
- 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
- Political
- Organizational
- Fisheries management
- Sustainable forest management
- Sustainable city
- New Urbanism
- Eco-cities
- Sustainable urban infrastructure
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
- Sustainable urban planning
- Sustainable urbanism
- Sustainable community
- Sustainable Communities Plan
- Sustainability reporting
- Urban reforestation
- Urban forest
- Urban forestry
- Urban green space
- Urban vitality
- Activity
- 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
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
- 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 energy
- Geothermal heating
- Geothermal power
- Hydroelectricity
- Marine energy
- Marine current power
- Solar energy
- Tidal power
- Wave power
- Wind power
Energy conservation
- Building-integrated photovoltaics
- Carbon footprint
- Efficient energy use
- Emissions trading
- Energy descent
- Energy recovery
- Energy storage
- Energy-plus building
- Green building
- Green computing
- Heat recovery ventilation
- List of low-energy building techniques
- Low-energy house
- Passive house
- Passive solar building design
- Peak oil
- Renewable energy (see above)
- Renewable heat
- Rooftop solar power
- Thermal efficiency
- Zero-energy building
Over consumption
- Anti-consumerism
- Circular economy
- Circular fashion
- Durable good
- Ecological footprint
- Environmental impact of fashion
- Ethical consumerism
- Fast fashion
- Planned obsolescence
- Throw-away society
- Tragedy of the commons
- Micro-sustainability
Food
- Cultured meat
- Food security
- Local food
- Permaculture
- Sustainable agriculture
- Sustainable gardening
- Sustainable fisheries
- Urban horticulture
Water
- Water conservation
- Water crisis
- Water efficiency
- Water footprint
- Water heat recycling
- Water recycling shower
Materials
- Industrial ecology
- Pallet crafts
- Rechargeable battery
- Reclaimed lumber
- Recycling
- Remanufacturing
- Repurposing
- Reuse
- Reuse of bottles
- Upcycling
- Waste
- Zero waste
- Zero-waste fashion
Sustainability organizations
Sustainability publications
- Sustainability (journal)
Sustainability advocates
Transport
- Bicycle-friendly
- Cyclability
- Cycling advocacy
- Cycling infrastructure
- Externalities of cars
- Green transport hierarchy
- Health and environmental effects of transport
- Pedestrian village
- Sustainable transport
- Walkability
- Walking audit
- Walking city
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
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