Outline of sustainability

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sustainability:

Sustainability – capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship and responsible resource management.

Essence of sustainability

 * Environmentalism
 * Environmental ethics
 * Planetary boundaries
 * Sustainable development
 * Sustainability science
 * Sustainability accounting
 * Sustainability governance
 * Sustainability education

Taxonomy
Sustainability is divided into two main branches: sustainability science and sustainability governance. Each of these branches is divided into a number of subfields:

Sub-fields of sustainability science

 * Environmental impact assessment
 * Environmental psychology
 * Environmental philosophy
 * Environmental law
 * Sustainability measurement

Sub-fields of sustainability governance

 * Economic sector:
 * Circular economy
 * Steady-state economy
 * Sustainable art
 * Sustainable advertising
 * Sustainable architecture
 * New Classical Architecture
 * Sustainable business
 * Sustainable fashion
 * Sustainable industries
 * Hannover Principles
 * Sustainable landscape architecture
 * Sustainable packaging
 * Sustainable procurement
 * Sustainable tourism
 * Sustainable transport
 * Political
 * Organizational
 * Fisheries management
 * Sustainable forest management
 * Sustainable city
 * New Urbanism
 * Eco-cities
 * Sustainable urban infrastructure
 * Sustainable urban drainage systems
 * Sustainable urban planning
 * Sustainable community
 * Sustainable Communities Plan
 * Sustainability reporting
 * Activity
 * Sustainable design
 * Sustainable living
 * Sustainable yield

Related disciplines

 * Conservation biology
 * Ecological humanities
 * Environmental biotechnology
 * Environmental chemistry
 * Environmental design
 * Environmental economics
 * Environmental engineering
 * Environmental ethics
 * Environmental history
 * Environmental law
 * Environmental psychology
 * Environmental science
 * Environmental sociology
 * Green politics

Biodiversity
see also: Biodiversity
 * Biosecurity
 * Ecosystem services
 * Ecosystem-based management
 * Ecosystem management
 * Endangered species
 * Holocene extinction event
 * Invasive species
 * Nature conservation

Levels of biological organisation

 * Biosphere
 * Biome

Politics of sustainability

 * Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
 * International reports and agreements
 * United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
 * Brundtlandt Commission Report, 1983
 * Our Common Future, 1987
 * Earth Summit (1992)
 * Agenda 21 (1992)
 * Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
 * ICPD Programme of Action (1994)
 * Earth Charter
 * Millennium Declaration (2000)
 * Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)
 * Politics of global warming
 * Climate change policy of the United States
 * Climate change in China

Population control
Population control


 * Birth control
 * Carrying capacity
 * Family planning
 * Human overpopulation
 * Sustainable population
 * Unintended pregnancy
 * Zero population growth

Environmental technology

 * Sustainable energy
 * Sustainable sanitation


 * Renewable energy
 * Biofuel
 * Biomass


 * Geothermal power
 * Hydroelectricity
 * Solar energy
 * Tidal power
 * Wave power
 * Wind power

Energy conservation

 * Carbon footprint
 * Emissions trading
 * Energy descent
 * Peak oil
 * Renewable energy (see above)

Over consumption

 * Anti-consumerism
 * Ecological footprint
 * Ethical consumerism
 * Tragedy of the commons
 * Micro-sustainability

Food



 * Food security
 * Local food
 * Permaculture
 * Sustainable agriculture
 * Sustainable gardening
 * Sustainable fisheries
 * Urban horticulture

Water

 * Water footprint
 * Water crisis
 * Water efficiency
 * Water conservation

Materials

 * Industrial ecology
 * Recycling
 * Waste
 * Zero waste

Sustainability organizations

 * Association of Environmental Professionals

Sustainability publications
Sustainability (journal)

Sustainability advocates

 * Category:Sustainability advocates