1) What is sustainability from an ecological point of view?
2) What is the definition of sustainability in the broad sense?
"What use is a sawmill without a forest?”
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The dimensions of sustainability are often taken to be: environmental, social and economic, known as the "three pillars".
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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.
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"to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
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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.
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Sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future.
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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.
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An unprecedented collective effort is needed to return human use of natural resources to within sustainable limits
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8) What question illustrates the main idea of sustainability?