Chapter 1: What is Sustainability?

By A. Maitra. Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradition, 2010

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is the ability of human communities around the world to maintain their independence and have access to the resources required to meet their needs, meaning that secure sources of livelihood are available to everyone. Sustainability is far from a new concept. Indigenous peoples have practiced elements of sustainable living for generations by being in tune with the natural environment and its limits, cycles, and changes. This understanding is usually referred to as traditional ecological knowledge, or the deep knowledge and beliefs about relationships between people, plants, animals, natural phenomena, landscapes, and timing of events in a specific ecosystem.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Materials Chemistry

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