Abstract
To the beginning of eighteenth century, the term ‘sustainability’ was coined by the Saxonian Hans Carl von Carlowitz—a leading employee in administration being responsible for wood supplies of mining industry. Thus, his intention was to constitute a strategy for efficient and long-term forest management in order to ensure resource base for economic activities [1]. In this course, sustainability became an essential element of forestry practice. A hundred years later, it was taken up by Kasthofer and more explicitly interpreted as a balance between environmental and economic aspects ([2], author’s translation): If annually not more timber is felt (in forest) than nature can reproduce and also not less. This definition refers to environmental aspects more explicitly by restricting the depletion of natural resources. Furthermore, economic aspects are still addressed by stating that consumption should not be less than reproduction.
Keywords
- Natural Capital
- Environmental Kuznets Curve
- International Energy Agency
- Intergenerational Equity
- Strong Sustainability
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- 1.
Original quote: ‘wenn nicht mehr jährlich darin (im Wald) Holz gefällt wird, als die Natur jährlich darin erzeugt, und auch nicht weniger’.
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Original quote: ‘Weltbank und Greenpeace, Blair und Gore, Lufthansa und Kirchentag—alle reden davon’.
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Jenssen, T. (2013). Choosing Sustainability?. In: Jenssen, T. (eds) Glances at Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5137-1_1
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