Self-sustainability
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Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a
Description
Self-sustainability is a type of
Practices that enable or aid self-sustainability include
A system is self-sustaining (or self-sufficient) if it can maintain itself by independent effort. The system self-sustainability is:
- the degree at which the system can sustain itself without external support
- the fraction of time in which the system is self-sustaining
Self-sustainability is considered one of the "ilities" and is closely related to sustainability and availability. In the economics literature, a system that has the quality of being self-sustaining is also referred to as an autarky.
Examples
Political states
Autarky exists whenever an entity can survive or continue its activities without external assistance. Autarky is not necessarily economic. For example, a military autarky would be a state that could defend itself without help from another country.
Labor
According to the Idaho Department of Labor, an employed adult shall be considered self-sufficient if the family income exceeds 200% of the Office of Management and Budget poverty income level guidelines.[3]
Peer-to-peer swarming
In peer-to-peer swarming systems, a swarm is self-sustaining if all the blocks of its files are available among peers (excluding seeds and publishers).[4]
Discussion
Self-sustainability and survivability
Whereas self-sustainability is a quality of one's independence, survivability applies to the future maintainability of one's self-sustainability and indeed one's existence. Many believe that more self-sustainability guarantees a higher degree of survivability. However, just as many oppose this, arguing that it is not self-sustainability that is essential for survivability, but on the contrary specialization and thus dependence.[5]
Consider the first two examples presented above. Among countries, commercial treats are as important as self-sustainability. An autarky is usually inefficient. Among people, social ties have been shown to be correlated to happiness and success as much as self-sustainability.[6]
See also
- Autarchism
- Cottagecore
- Eating your own dog food
- Five Acres and Independence
- Food sovereignty
- Homesteading
- Individualism
- Juche
- List of system quality attributes
- Localism
- Rugged individualism
- Self-help
- Tiny house movement
- Vegetable farming
Notes and references
- ISBN 978-0-486-20974-6.
- from the original on 2018-12-11. Retrieved 2023-08-31.
- ^ Idaho Department of Labor (1999). "Definition of Self-sufficiency." Archived 2010-05-26 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2010-06-26.
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- ^ What and Who is Self-Sufficient? by Katrien Vander Straeten
- YouTube
External links
- Media related to Self-sufficiency at Wikimedia Commons
- Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
- Development Initiatives Strategies for Self-Sustainability