SUSTAIN 1S03
Goal 1
No poverty.
Implement nationally appropriate protection systems, equal rights to economic
resources, eradicate poverty, build resilience, mobilization of resources.
Sustainability
Enduring into long-term future. Systems operate on their own and within larger context.
Sustainable development
Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of
the future generations to meet their own needs.
Needs include: ecological sustainability, economic opportunity, social inclusion.
Triple Bottom Line
Economic, social, and environmental pillars of sustainability.
Systems
Properties are emergent properties (come out over time), systems are nested within
other systems.
Carrying capacity
Maximum number of individuals a given environment can support indefinitely.
Cannot have consumption overshooting carrying capacity indefinitely, carrying capacity
will have to decrease.
Ecological footprint
Demand placed on nature for resources consumed and wastes absorbed, expressed as
land area.
Natural capital
Plants, animals, soil, water, air, ecosystem services.
Planetary "savings account".
Resilience
Capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and retain its basic function and structure.
What makes a system resilient?
1. Diversity (many different species).
2. Redundancy (enough of each type of species).
3. Modularity (when something happens to one section of ecosystem doesn't affect
everything).
4. Connectivity (if something positive occurs, can be brought through the ecosystem
more).
Complex-adaptive systems