Inverness, United Kingdom

Sustainability Studies

Language: English Studies in English

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

University website: www.uhi.ac.uk

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Sustainability

Sustainability (from 'sustain' and 'ability') is the process of change, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the following interconnected domains: environment, economic and social. Sub-domains of sustainable development have been considered also: cultural, technological and political. Sustainable development, is the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Brundtland Report for the World Commission on Environment and Development (1992) introduced the term of sustainable development.

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Sustainability

Our deep urge to evolve to a more spiritually mature level of understanding and living, and to create a social order that promotes more justice, peace, freedom, health, sanity, prosperity, sustainability, and happiness, absolutely requires us to stop viewing animals as food objects to be consumed and to shift to a plant-based way of eating.

Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet (2005). Ch. 2

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Sustainability

We have an economy where we steal the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP [gross domestic product].

Paul Hawken Top 10 Myths About Sustainability at mindfully.org, 2009.

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Sustainability

At the beginning of the 21st century peace has become pivotal to the survival of society as we know it. The major challenges facing humanity today are global – climate change, lack of fresh water, ever-decreasing biodiversity and over-population. It is hard to over-state the devastating effects that these problems will have on business unless global actions are taken that have the agreement of most nations. No nations or individuals will be untouched.

Steve Killelea The Study of Industries that Prosper in Peace – the ‘Peace Industry’ (2008)

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Harmonising international offshore law

The rise in offshore construction has led to explosions, fires and spills that have had a devastating impact on humans, the environment and the economy. An EU initiative aimed at developing an international legal framework that regulates offshore construction.

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