Chapter 25
The Prospect of Sustainable Development

Introduction

Content

Objectives

Quiz

Links

Graphs

glossary

Corrections

Updates

Amendments

Content

The origin of sustainability

• Environment and sustainability

• The origin of sustainability: Justice

• The ethics of Man and Nature

• The scientific process

• The political process

• The future of sustainability

  
  

Concepts of sustainability

• Making sustainability operational

• Subsystems of sustainability

• Carrying capacity

• Measuring sustainability

• Review Box 25.1 Implementing Factor 10

• Reducing material flows – Factor 10

• Applying quantitative sustainability – defining the limits

• Indicators of sustainability

  
  

Sustainability in practice – materials and energy management

• Materials management

• The energy sector

• Exergy saving – saving energy quality

• Review Box 25.2 On exergy, useful energy

• Efficient heating of houses – the heat pump

• Energy efficiency – co–generation

• Problems with the present transport systems

• Efficient transportation

• Review Box 25.3 Sustainable urban development

  
  

Towards sustainable production – industry and agriculture

• An ecological perspective on society – human ecology

• New attitudes to industrial production

• Sustainable agriculture

• Sustainable forestry

• Fishing

  
  

Future perspectives

• The meaning of sustainable development

• Agenda 21 – the agenda for action

• The actors of Agenda 21

• Social construction of sustainability