The Meaning of Sustainability
Definitive works from across the spectrum
- What does Sustainability Really Mean? The Search for Useful Indicators
- Sustainability, Human Welfare and Ecosystem Health
- Sustainability Science
- The Four Challenges of Sustainability
- Sustainable Development in a Post-Brundtland World
- Toward Some Operational Principles of Sustainable Development
The History of Sustainability
The development of sustainability overtime, including environmental origins, declarations and charters
- Core Publications in the History of Sustainable Development & UN’s Activities in Meeting this Objective)
- The Talloires Declaration
- Agenda 21
- The Brundtland Report
- The Tbilisi Declaration
- Wright, T. S. . (2002). Definitions and frameworks for environmental sustainability in higher education. Higher Education Policy, 15(2), 105-120.
- The Earth Charter
also see, Weakland, J. P. and P. B. Corcoran (2009). “The Earth Charter in Higher Education for Sustainability.” Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 3: 151-158.
Sustainability Literacy
- Orr, D. W. (1996) What Is Education For ?
- Dale, A. and L. Newman (2005).Sustainable development, education and literacy.International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 6: 351-362
- Second Nature’s Sustainability Curriculum Framework
Systems Thinking
- Sweeny, Linda Booth. 12 Living System Principles
- Capra, F. (1985). “CRITERIA OF SYSTEMS.” in Futures – A short piece on the shift in scientific thinking over the last century
- Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System. The Sustainability Institute, Vermont
- Aronson, D. (1996). Overview of Systems Thinking
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