sustainable / sustainability
Nothing weird about the etymology here - but what's the familiy tree of buzzwords such as 'sustainable development,' 'sustainable energy' etc. ? Do we know who coined / popularised the modern...
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The online OED has the ecological sense from 1980:"1980 World Conservation Strategy (Internat. Union Conservation of Nature) IV. 1/1 The necessity of ensuring that utilization of an ecosystem or...
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1978 Besson, J. M. and H. Vogtmann, eds. Toward a Sustainable Agriculture Oberwil, Switzerland: IFOAM 243 pp. References at ends of articles. NAL call no. S605.5.T68The term certainly predates 1980....
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Some sites give the UN 1972 World Environment Conference (Stockholm) as the time and place where the term was first used, but I do not see it in the declarations of that council.
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