Sustainability: Articles & Databases

To search for journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, go directly to the Library databases * (listed by subject or by an alphabetical listing from A-Z)

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Theme 1: Environmental Sustainability

Studies of sustainability, with a focus on environmental analyses.

• The science and technology of environmental sustainability
• Ecosystemics
• Sustainable agriculture
• Urbanization and its consequences
• Ecological footprints and ecospaces
• Atmosphere and biosphere: global warming, the ozone layer, pollution
• Energy: renewable and not
• Water: sources and uses
• Land and sea, mountain and savannah, desert and wet zones, forests and coasts: variable impacts on varied environments
• Biological diversity: its past and prospects
• Biotechnology and its critics
• Danger signs: rising sea levels, desertification, soil degradation

Keywords

• Ecosystems
• Science
• Technology
• Energy
• Water
• Land
• Sea
• Biological Diversity

Theme 2: Sustainability in Economic, Social and Cultural Context

Studies of sustainability, with a focus on socio-cultural and economic analyses.

• One, two, three, four, how many ‘bottom lines’?
• The meaning of cultural sustainability and sustainable heritage development
• Belonging and identity: their environmental, economic and social significance
• Changing patterns and cultures of consumption
• Cosmopolis: local cultures, globalization, diaspora
• Women and men, children and the elderly, families and sustainability
• Cultural dimensions of childbearing and population growth
• Cultural tourism
• Indigenous peoples: self-government, self management and cultural autonomy.
• Indigenous knowledge and traditional practices of sustainability: broadening
• the scope of valid knowledge
• The economics of environment, culture and society
• What is economic value?
• Cultural, social and environmental capital
• The economics of sustainability
• Needs, wants and demand: reconfiguring the economic equation
• Business cases: the cost and value of sustainability
• Risks and risk management: where economy meets environment, culture and society
• Free trade and fair trade
• Global flows: finance, trade, technology transfer and debt
• Sustainable aid and aid for sustainability
• The dynamics of production and consumption
• Accountability: beyond financial years and bottom lines
• Measuring performance and reporting sustainability
• Organizations and corporations: defining the stakeholders and meeting their interests
• Development, underdevelopment and sustainability
• Tourism and its impacts
• Sustainable and unsustainable transportation
• Wellbeing and quality of life: sources and strategies
• Gender and sustainability
• Poverty and its eradication
• Health in its environmental, cultural, economic and social contexts
• Population growth and its consequences
• Wastes and waste management
• Urbanization and the sustainability of human settlement

Keywords

• Culture
• Economics
• Society

Theme 3: Sustainability Policy and Practice

Addressing sustainability agendas and the practices flowing from these in government, corporate and community sectors.

• The politics of sustainability
• Global sustainability policies
• National sustainability policies and initiatives
• Sustainability in local government
• Corporate sustainability initiatives
• Community and NGO sustainability initiatives
• Measuring impacts: environmental assessment
• Bioethics
• Nature as intellectual and physical property
• Civic pluralism: multiculturalism and cultural sustainability
• Cultural and political liberalization: challenges and dangers
• The arts and creativity as a resource for sustainability
• Structures of ownership: private property, public property and the commons
• Good citizenship in fragile environments, cultures, economies, societies
• Levels of governance: interactions of sustainability initiatives at local, regional, national, and international levels
• Domains of responsibility: NGOs, corporations, persons
• The sources of sustainable innovation
• Planning for sustainability
• Capacity building in theory and practice
• Sustainability and community participation
• Managing ‘human resources’

Keywords

• Politics
• Policy
• Practices

Theme 4: Sustainability Education

On teaching and learning about human relations to the environment, and raising community awareness of sustainability.

• Environmental education in a time of ecosystemic crisis
• Teaching and learning sustainability: schools, universities, communities
• The media, public awareness and community education on sustainability
• Education sustaining language and culture
• Public knowledge: the role of the media and government
• Natural and social sciences: taking an holistic view
• Researching sustainability
• Knowledge capacities: developing sustainability science and technology locally

Keywords

• School Education
• Higher Education
• Community Education

Click on one of the databases listed below to search for water-related articles, i.e., journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Scroll over the names of the databases to see a description of each.