The Concept of Environmental Sustainability

Goodland, Robert

doi:10.1146/annurev.es.26.110195.000245

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“…However, sustainable agricultural technologies have positive impacts on agriculture-environment-health synergies (Smith and Smithers, 1994) and when adopted by the global community through research, advocacy and policy offerings, hold grounds to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Goodland, 1995;Kates et al, 2005). Thus, sustainable agricultural systems practised through both adaptation/resilient technologies and low-carbon economy technologies hold bright future for present and future generations on environmental sustainability to address the degradative effects of unsustainable agricultural practices (Pretty and Ball, 2001;Wall and Smit, 2005;Chel and Kaushik, 2011).…”

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“…8;2015 sustainable agricultural technologies can also be adopted to reduce the challenges of environmental degradation because they have positive agriculture-environment-health synergies (Smith and Smithers, 1994) as humanity has the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (Goodland, 1995;Kates et al, 2005). In view of increasing trends of antecedents of environmental degradation globally, sustainable development concept has attracted huge attention in respect of research, advocacy and policy offerings (Goodland, 1995;Kates et al, 2005). Thus, Kates et al (2005) has extensively summarized sustainable development concept in respect of its definitions, goals, indicators, values, practice, institutions, challenges and role of global partners in promoting it across the world.…”

Section: Improving the Environment And Health Through Sustainable Agrmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Extant research increasingly has advocated that good agricultural practice, in the form of sustainable agriculture is one of the promising technologies and practices that have the power to reduce the degradative effect of agricultural practices on the environment (Goodland, 1995;Wall and Smit, 2005). Sustainable agriculture refers to agricultural production systems that aim to reduce, eliminate or mitigate environmental harm while maintaining adequate food and feed production as well as minimize human health risks through reduced degradation and contamination of soil and surface water, reduced greenhouse gases emissions into atmosphere, and increased conservation of biodiversity (Smith and Smithers, 1994;Koohafkan et al, 2011;Pretty et al, 2011).…”

Section: Improving the Environment And Health Through Sustainable Agrmentioning

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The Impact of Agricultural Practices on Environmental Sustainability in Ghana: A Review

Adomako¹,

Ampadu²

2015

JSD

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Agriculture continues to play its role as the backbone of the Ghanaian economy despite that its contribution to GDP has declined by seven-percentage points between 2007 and 2013. The relationship between agricultural practices and environmental sustainability poses serious challenges, yet it has attracted less attention in many developing countries particularly in Ghana. This paper presents a review of the impact of agricultural practices on environmental sustainability in Ghana.The findings of the study reveal that some of the country's agricultural practices such as deforestation, slash-and-burn agriculture, negative soil nutrients balance, increased dependence on agro-chemicals for both crop and animal production -chemical fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides, vaccines and antibiotics, antimicrobial drugs, biotechnology, etc threaten our environmental sustainability and need to be altered. Besides, degrading the soil, water, air and biodiversity as well as posing health risks to both famers and consumers, the practices also contribute to high carbon-emissions into the atmosphere facilitating climate change. The effects of climate on agricultural production and productivity are devastating and negate farmers' income and livelihoods, health and the environment in general. These agricultural practices are not sustainable; as they degrade the environment and reduce the effective functioning of the essential ecosystem services; and ultimately, undermine the nutritional and health value of foods.The study recommended sustainable agricultural practices to enhance environmental sustainability through developing resilient/adaptive and low-carbon economy technologies that aim to cope with the vagaries of climate change and reduce the emissions of carbon compounds thereby, protecting the natural resource base of the environment for both present and future generations.

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Section: Improving the Environment And Health Through Sustainable Agrmentioning

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Section: Improving the Environment And Health Through Sustainable Agrmentioning

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The Impact of Agricultural Practices on Environmental Sustainability in Ghana: A Review

Adomako¹,

Ampadu²

2015

JSD

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“…E. Daly, 1990;Goodland, 1995Goodland, , 2002Goodland & Daly, 1996;Sachs, 1993Sachs, , 2009Sutton, 2004;United Nations, 2009;UNWTO, 2015;WEF, 2014); however, in general, they all converge on the same goal (Goodland, 1995) and principles defined by TBL (Elkington, 2012;United Nations, 2002). According to Goodland (2002), environmental sustainability, the focus of this research, originated from social concerns that converged on the need to maintain the natural capital, which is composed of water, land, air, minerals, and ecosystem services.…”

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The convergence of environmental sustainability and ocean cruises in two moments: in the academic research and corporate communication

Ramoa

Flores

Stecker

2018

RBTUR

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Concerns for world peace, freedom, and the future of people and the planet have led to several United Nations Conferences, generating discussions on global sustainable development. These efforts resulted in the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The proposed Goal 14 reflects the concern for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas, and marine resources. In this context, the research objects of this study are ocean cruise ships and the main dimension surveyed is environmental sustainability. Firstly, the study sought to identify through the convergence of the dimensions of sustainability and cruises the contributions to the cruise industry that promote the SDGs. To this end, we carried out a bibliometric analysis of scientific production on cruise ship environment, narrowing the research focus on environmentally sustainable practices. The second research objective is to examine cruise companies’ strategic inclination to provide information on environmental initiatives to the market. The results show little scientific research focused on the convergence of the two topics studied, environmental sustainability and cruises. Only 12 scientific articles were identified. Regarding the information on environmentally sustainable practices, the findings show that only 22.6% of the 31 cruise companies surveyed provide this information on their corporate websites.

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“…Scientific literature on environmental sustainability mainly focuses on the principle of similarity to nature and the preservation of agroecosystems in the long term [41,42]. According to this concept, a farming system is environmentally sustainable if it protects the natural resources provided by the ecosystem, such as biodiversity and water, soil and air quality [43].…”

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A Tool for the Sustainability Assessment of Farms: Selection, Adaptation and Use of Indicators for an Italian Case Study

2017

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Indicator-based tools are widely used for the assessment of farm sustainability, but analysts still face methodological and conceptual issues, including data availability, the complexity of the concept of sustainability and the heterogeneity of agricultural systems. This study contributes to this debate through the illustration of a procedure for farm sustainability assessment focussed on the case study of the South Milan Agricultural Park, Italy. The application is based on a set of environmental, social and economic indicators retrieved from the literature review. The framework is based on three main steps: (i) Data collection mainly through interviews with farmers and institutions; (ii) data elaboration through an aggregative structure; and (iii) score analysis. The latter step includes a descriptive analysis that allows a comparison among farms or groups of farms and a principal components analysis that helps to confirm the dimensions in which indicators were previously included (components). Results derived from the sampled farms show that the framework can provide easy-to-read results useful at different levels. The study highlighted the procedures for the framework construction that is compatible with the region's context and objectives, using an analytical approach that aims at the use of balanced features of availability and reliability of data.

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The Concept of Environmental Sustainability

Cited by 1,057 publications

References 38 publications

The Impact of Agricultural Practices on Environmental Sustainability in Ghana: A Review

The Impact of Agricultural Practices on Environmental Sustainability in Ghana: A Review

The convergence of environmental sustainability and ocean cruises in two moments: in the academic research and corporate communication

A Tool for the Sustainability Assessment of Farms: Selection, Adaptation and Use of Indicators for an Italian Case Study

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