This handy reference will help you understand some of the terms being used to discuss sustainability issues publicly, in the media, etc.

 

        Agenda 21

Basic Needs *

Behavior/behavior change

Big Data *

Business ethics

 

Carbon emission trading

Carbon tax

Carrying capacity *

Circular Economy *

Civil Society *

Complex systems *

Consilience

Corporate social responsibility

 

 

Degrowth *

Dematerialization *

Design

 

Eco-efficiency

 

Ecological Footprint

Economic inequality

Emissions trading/Cap and Trade

Environmental degradation

Environmental economics

Environmental movement

Environmental Social and Corporate Governance

Environmentalism

Equity

 

 

Externalities

Fracking (Hydraulic facturing)

 

Full-cost pricing

Futurology

 

Globalization

Globalization and Its Discontents

Good governance

 

Green politics

Greenwashing

 

Gross domestic product

Gross national happiness

Human Development Index

ICLEI – International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

 

Industrial ecology

Intergenerationality 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

International Union for Conservation of Nature

 

Kyoto Protocol *

 

 

Millennium Development Goals

Moore’s law

Multivariate Analysis

NIMBY

Oil reserves

 

 

Peak oil

Peak water

Polluter pays principle

Population ageing

Precautionary principle

Public participation

 

Public–private partnership

Quality of life

Rebound effect (conservation)

Resource depletion

Sharing economy 

Stabilization Wedge Game

Strategic planning

Sustainability

Sustainable city

Sustainable design

Sustainable development

Sustainable Development Timeline

Sustainable transport

 

Tax avoidance and tax evasion

Technological unemployment

The Skeptical Environmentalist

Tyranny of small decisions

 

United Nations Climate Change Conference – Paris 2015 *

UN Commission on Sustainable Development

UN Conference on the Human Environment

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Universal access

Urban sprawl

Value capture

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

World population

Zero–sum game

 

 


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