ENV310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Triple Bottom Line, Natural Capital, Wced
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The sustainability imperative (former course title: sustainability as goal and process, core questions for the course, conceptual framework: circles of sustainability. Stages in implementation of sustainability as a business megatrend (based on lubin & esty, 2010): stage 1: do old things in new ways. Sustainability = the goal: sustainable development = the process, sustainable, a process or activity that can be maintained without exhaust or collapse. Development more difficult to define: improving peoples" lives and choices. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs: not the first time the term was used, but definitely the most influential. Not the only definition of sustainable development that was proposed by the wced. Sustainability as a synergy of values: economic, social. Sustainability illustrated video (5 min): triple bottom line & sustainability: the science of.
