The notion of sustainability is used ubiquitously across all sectors of society, so much so that it is sometimes difficult to distill a meaningful definition. Nevertheless, like other terms—such as justice, equality, and freedom, which are also often abused and misused—sustainability has a normative aspect that, fundamentally, is worth considering. David V. J. Bell has defined sustainability as being about designing and organizing human activity in such a way that the complexity and... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2020. 3p.