The Limits to Sustainability Science: Ecological Constraints or Endless Innovation?

Ecological principles must govern sustainability, yet sustainability science is largely concerned with social-environmental interactions and barely considers physical limits on resource use. Whether it is possible to overcome such limits can be contested, but the issues raised by a macroecological p...

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Autor principal: Mace, Georgina M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378611/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22723739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001343
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description Ecological principles must govern sustainability, yet sustainability science is largely concerned with social-environmental interactions and barely considers physical limits on resource use. Whether it is possible to overcome such limits can be contested, but the issues raised by a macroecological perspective should be a fundamental part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20).
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spelling pubmed-33786112012-06-21 The Limits to Sustainability Science: Ecological Constraints or Endless Innovation? Mace, Georgina M. PLoS Biol Editorial Ecological principles must govern sustainability, yet sustainability science is largely concerned with social-environmental interactions and barely considers physical limits on resource use. Whether it is possible to overcome such limits can be contested, but the issues raised by a macroecological perspective should be a fundamental part of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Public Library of Science 2012-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3378611/ /pubmed/22723739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001343 Text en Georgina M. Mace. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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