A Review of Some Important Literature Resources Affecting the Development of Sustainability Philosophy with its Socioeconomic and Environmental Dimensions

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EVALUATION ON RURAL AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, Bratislava, Slovakya, 18 - 19 Mayıs 2023, ss.1-6

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Bratislava
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Slovakya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-6
  • Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Sustainability is a socio-ecological process characterized by the environment, economy, and social spheres of influence in the pursuit of a common ideal. It is a commitment and initiative to leave a world where they can be self-sufficient in every field for future generations. Sustainability is the goal of achieving human ecosystem balance (homeostasis). This target also covers temporal processes with a holistic approach in the context of “sustainable development.” Since the first ages, humanity has always attempted to create permanent systems and structures in socioeconomic terms, which can be defined as sustainability. But at that time, people generally did this in order not to compromise their current order and welfare level. Today, we see that sustainability has a much newer and more modern definition. Today, a definition of sustainability centered on the future rather than the present was introduced in the Brundtland Report in 1987: “Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Sustainability, which is used to refer to the biosphere and the ability of civilization to be permanent in the 21st century, aims to ensure a change in a balanced environment where the potential to meet human needs today and in the future is preserved. This study discusses some important literary sources that affect the development of the philosophy of sustainability with their socioeconomic and environmental dimensions. Selected sources in this context are: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There (1949), Silent Spring (1962), The Limits to Growth (1972), Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), Our Common Future (1987), The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014), The End of Nature (1989), Food Waste. Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life (2014), Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet (2012), and The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (2019).