Introduction
Critical sustainability issues occur in a context that is exceedingly complex, constituting a dynamic, multivariable universe involving multiple social, political, economic, and cultural aspects interacting among themselves, across sectors, and with the physical and non-human living parts of the world. [1]
At first glance a volume on Infectious Diseases in an Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology (ESST) appears to be an oxymoron since our goal is to overcome problems caused by infectious diseases, not to sustain the transmissible pathogenic agents that cause the disease and interfere with the sustainability and quality of human life and its continued survival within the Earth’s closed ecosystem. Sustainability refers to an interaction of a population and the carrying capacity of its environment that results in a stable but dynamic equilibrium [1] that constantly needs to readjust as both are continually changing. Therefore, sustainability in the context of...
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Shulman, L.M. (2023). Infectious Diseases: Introduction. In: Shulman, L.M. (eds) Infectious Diseases. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2463-0_1104
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