For the purposes of this entry, sustainability is defined as the ability to economically maintain an installed power... Abbreviations Discharge: A measure of the flow rate of steam, water, or heat discharged at or near the ground surface from a subsurface geothermal reservoir. ...
Landscape sustainability is defined as the capacity of a landscape to consistently provide long-term, landscape-specific ecosystem services essential for maintaining and improving human well-being. Fundamentally, well-being is a journey, not a destination. Landscape sustainability science is a place-...
Sustainability is defined as providing the current generation's demands without jeopardizing future generations' capacity to meet their demands (Hardy, 2011). The concept of sustainability has also entered the realm of e-waste recycling (Debnath et al., 2018). It can be said that the ideal ...
Sustainability is often defined as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. A company implements sustainable practices by reducing its consumption of limited resources or finding alternative resources with fewer environmental consequences. Sustai...
It is defined as the belief in one's ability to impact change via action (Lefcour, 1991). These sets of beliefs will impact individuals' perspective on what happens around them and their control level over these things. There are two kinds of the locus of control: the internal and ...
Sustainable manufacturing is defined as the creation of manufactured goods through the use of a series of processes that minimise the negative environmental impacts, conserve energy and natural resources, are safe for employees, communities and consumers and are economically sound (Moldavska and Welo,...
In 1987, the United Nations first defined sustainable development as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” This movement entails considering the ripple effect that decisions and actions have on the environment and society ...
A "sustainable" global society, according to The Earth Charter (2000), is founded for nature, universal human rights, economic justice and a culture of peace. At the World Summit in 2005, the "three pillars of sustainability" were defined as the reconciliation of environmental, societal and ...
Social sustainability is not yet as clearly defined. Some scholars say it encompasses all human activity and that all domains of sustainability ladder back to a social component. A society is sustainable when its people don’t face structural obstacles such as gender, wealth and racial inequality,...
While the concept of SD is always defined as the balance between three sectors; economic, environment and social, the Environmental Economists have begun to emphasize the importance of ES. Based on this emphasis, the paper discusses the interactions between the natural environment and the economic ...