Sustainability: It′s Human Nature

What ’ s blocking sustainability ? Human nature , cognition , and denial

In 1992, 1,700 of the world’s top scientists issued a public statement titled The World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity. They reported that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.” More than a decade later, the authors of the Millennium Ecosystem ...

Human Nature, Its Development, Variations and Assessment

Society–nature Coevolution: Interdisciplinary Concept for Sustainability

A brief historical background to the currently ascending interest in evolutionary and coevolutionary theory is sketched, and the concept of society–nature coevolution is positioned in this broader field. The significance of society–nature coevolutionary pathways for transition to sustainability is highlighted with Schellnhuber’s heuristic ‘theater world’ for representing paradigms of sustainabl...

Human nature theologically and philosophically viewed

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Sustainability and its measurement

This paper critically reviews the existential need, history, role and status of applying quantitative scientific sustainable development in all human activities of globally-affecting magnitude, such as energy, water and food, and it organically incorporates criteria and effects of the interactions between technology and society. Sustainability metrics and their ongoing development are described...