Nota.-El presente artículo fue enviado por el autor expresamente para el presente número de la Revista Virtual de REDESMA. Abstract Sustainability has become a key concept in development theory, yet a clear and well-organized central body of accepted theory supporting it does not exist. Sustainability goals and issues are being addressed with traditional sustainable development tools and strate...

The theoretical framework andmethodology of a water ecological–economic system (WEES) assessment based on emergy synthesis are proposed in this paper. Through calculating ecological and economic inputs and outputs within and outside the complex system, this paper discusses the system’s economic situation, water resources development and system sustainability based on a series of emergy indicato...

Fisheries management agencies have to drive resources on sustainable paths, i.e. within defined boundaries for an indefinite time. The viable-control approach is proposed as a relevant method to deal with sustainability. We analyse the ICES precautionary approach (PA) by means of the notion of viability domain, and provide a mathematical test for sustainability. It is found that the PA based on...

Understanding how to source agricultural raw materials sustainably is challenging in today's globalized food system given the variety of issues to be considered and the multitude of suggested indicators for representing these issues. Furthermore, stakeholders in the global food system both impact these issues and are themselves vulnerable to these issues, an important duality that is often impl...

In this paper, we present the irst generic framework for selecting comprehensive material/energetic sustainability performance indicators (SPIs) for technical systems: the S-Cycle Performance Matrix (SCPMatrix). This novel matrix is comprised of 6 generic sustainability goals, 11 SPI archetypes, and 23 corresponding metrics identiied from our previously developed model of technical system susta...

We analyzed how three different dairy management systems –continuous grazing, confinement and management intensive grazingcompare across nine sustainability indicators set by the Dairy Stewardship Alliance. A self-assessment survey comprising animal husbandry, biodiversity, energy, community health, farm financials, nutrient, pest, water and soil management was assessed twice across the same fa...

nowadays, sustainable development (sd) has become one of the most important paradigms of the contemporary societies and all programs in various disciplines should coordinate their aims and approaches with its principles. but determining the degree of sustainability in different contexts has been one of the more challenging issues. according to the relative nature of sustainability, evaluation o...