Environmental Sustainability

摘要

Environmental sustainability (ES), the ability to maintain the qualities that are valued in the physical environment, is a subset of sustainable development. ES is multidisciplinary by its very nature. The physical environment can refer to the urban (e.g. water, atmosphere, land, physical resources, buildings, roads, etc.); rural (e.g. farms, species utilized by agriculture, ecological communities); and natural environments (e.g. wild species, natural resources). The major areas of interest for ES are summarized in Figure 1.