Published 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Delineating a sustainable future

Description

The expression Develop Sustainable of wide use today in day is used among national political leaders and among environmentalists. The sustainable economy from the environmental point of view is that that obeys the basic principles or laws of the sustainability; principles so real as those of the aerodynamic one or those of the thermodynamic. If somebody intends, for example, to design an airplane, it will have to be adjusted to the aerodynamic principles and to print to the apparatus a certain stability degree so that it can fly. In the same way, an economic system environmentally sustainable it must respond to the balance principles if it doesn't want to be condemned to the failure. The fundamental laws or sustainability principles are as rigorous as the aerodynamic laws. The society can violate these laws in the short term; but not long term. As well as an airplane can lose height in a brief lapse without falling; the economy can violate the principles of the sustainability in the short term without collapsing. Among of the sustainability principles figure the following: long term; the extinction of species cannot exceed the evolution of the species; the soil erosion cannot exceed the soils formation; the destruction of forests cannot exceed the regeneration of the forests; the emissions of carbon cannot exceed the fixation of carbon; the fishing cannot exceed the regenerative capacity of the banks of fish and, in the human land, the morbidity cannot exceed the mortality. The author also speaks of the disappearance of species, ozone layer, stability of the climate, earth, water fertilizers and alimentary systems among others

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Delineando un futuro sostenible

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Revista Desarrollo Sostenible
Journal Issue
no.1
Journal Page Range
p. 3-9
CODEN
RDSEB7

INIS

Country of Publication
Colombia
Country of Input or Organization
Colombia
INIS RN
33011566
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MAN
Descriptors DEC
ANIMALS; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; MAMMALS; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATES