Defining Sustainability

In “Sustainability: Virtuous or Vulgar?,” a paperpublished recently in the journal BioScience,Michigan Technological University wildlife ecologist John A. Vucetich and Michigan State University environmental ethicistMichael Nelson Vucetich evaluated popular conceptions of“sustainability.”  Rather than championing a particular interpretationof sustainability, they revealed the unresolved tensions inherent in the prevailing mainstream definition of sustainability, which theyformulate as “meeting human needs [...]