Outline of 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 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
- 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 community
- Sustainability reporting
- 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
- 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