Open AccessWhat means sustainability and sustainable development?
Author(s) -
Siegmar Otto
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
ökologisches wirtschaften
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2625-5421
pISSN - 1430-8800
DOI - 10.14512/oew.v25i4.1092
Subject(s) - connotation , sustainability , meaning (existential) , sustainable development , environmental ethics , business , engineering ethics , political science , epistemology , engineering , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , law , biology
What is the meaning of the terms sustainable development and sustainability? Although both terms have general positive connotation, thereremains a difference between the connotation of sustainable development and sustainability. These differences are particularly true for people that do not know the terms.