1) What is sustainability in an ecological point of view?
2) What is the definition of sustainability in the broad sense?
| "What use is a sawmill without a forest?” |
| The dimensions of sustainability are often taken to be: environmental, social and economic, known as the "three pillars". |
3) What is important for humans to live sustainably?
4) What is necessary to avoid depleting of natural resources?
| Sustainability is the ability to maintain a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. |
| "to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” |
5) Since when has the idea of sustainability been reconsidered?
6) What is a widely accepted definition of sustainability?
| Since the 1980s, the idea of human sustainability has become increasingly associated with the integration of economic, social and environmental spheres. |
| Sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future. |
7) What are the three pillars of sustainability?
| For humans to live sustainably, the Earth's resources must be used at a rate at which they can be replenished. |
| An unprecedented collective effort is needed to return human use of natural resources to within sustainable limits |
8) What question illustrates the main idea of sustainability?