Sustainable disfinism
There are basically two ways to indulge in disfinism — the science of no definition: Don’t provide any definition, or provide a new one for each and every occasion and let everyone come up with their own. Worst of all: Make them differ only slightly. For examples see
- Google search on “definitions of sustainability”
- The definition of sustainability (by umweltbildung.at; English only readers may want to skip the German introduction)
- Definitions of Sustainable Development (by Susan Murcott)
- Definitions of Sustainability from the Literature (PDF, by Annie Pearce and Leslie Walrath; a comprehensive list of “over 200 definitions of sustainability from published literature, including source citations and key words”)
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:34
I find it difficult to sustain interest.
March 30th, 2008 at 9:35
I guess many people quickly loose interest in abundance.
March 31st, 2008 at 9:33
And some would want to add: … until they drown.
May 13th, 2009 at 0:25
“Definitions of Sustainable Development” compiled by Susan Murcott (MIT) and published 1997 was available at sustainableliving.org/ appen-a.htm at least until March 2007 but is gone. I have changed the links to copies which can be found here and there.