{"id":138,"date":"2023-08-03T11:13:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/cebe\/chapter\/__unknown__-36\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:13:55","slug":"sustainability","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/cebe\/chapter\/sustainability\/","title":{"raw":"Sustainability","rendered":"Sustainability"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"p1\">The term \u201c<strong>sustainability<\/strong>\u201d is most often used in business ethics to refer to environmental sustainability. In its most general sense, environmental sustainability refers to the ability to make sustained (prolonged) use of some resource (e.g., by carefully managing a renewable resource like a woodlot). The most common use of the notion of sustainability in business contexts, perhaps, is within the term \u201csustainable development,\u201d which was famously defined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Common_Future\"><em>Brundtland Report<\/em><\/a> as \u201cdevelopment that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">In some cases, the term \u201csustainability\u201d is used to refer to the sustainability of a particular company\u2019s methods of production and resource usage: a company\u2019s use of a particular resource (such as wood or water or a rare mineral) might be said to be \u201csustainable\u201d if those activities are consistent with long-term access to that resource in the future. In this sense of the word,\u00a0<em>sustainability<\/em> is part of the broader set of questions falling under the heading of\u00a0<em>environmental ethics.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">There have been attempts to use the term \u201csustainability\u201d to refer to\u00a0much more than environmental sustainability. Some use it as a kind of placeholder for all positive behaviours by companies\u2014including paying attention to the interests not just of shareholders, but of society more generally, and of the planet as a whole.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>See also in CEBE:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/cebe\/chapter\/environmental-ethics\/\">Environmental Ethics<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Further Reading<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Anderson, Ray. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0964595354\/ethics\">Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model.<\/a>\u00a0Peregrinzilla Press, 1999.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Newton, Lisa. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0130617962\/ethics\"><em>Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainability and the Moral Life<\/em><\/a>. Prentice-Hall, 2002.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<div id=\"jp-post-flair\" class=\"sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled\"><\/div>","rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The term \u201c<strong>sustainability<\/strong>\u201d is most often used in business ethics to refer to environmental sustainability. In its most general sense, environmental sustainability refers to the ability to make sustained (prolonged) use of some resource (e.g., by carefully managing a renewable resource like a woodlot). The most common use of the notion of sustainability in business contexts, perhaps, is within the term \u201csustainable development,\u201d which was famously defined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Common_Future\"><em>Brundtland Report<\/em><\/a> as \u201cdevelopment that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In some cases, the term \u201csustainability\u201d is used to refer to the sustainability of a particular company\u2019s methods of production and resource usage: a company\u2019s use of a particular resource (such as wood or water or a rare mineral) might be said to be \u201csustainable\u201d if those activities are consistent with long-term access to that resource in the future. In this sense of the word,\u00a0<em>sustainability<\/em> is part of the broader set of questions falling under the heading of\u00a0<em>environmental ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There have been attempts to use the term \u201csustainability\u201d to refer to\u00a0much more than environmental sustainability. Some use it as a kind of placeholder for all positive behaviours by companies\u2014including paying attention to the interests not just of shareholders, but of society more generally, and of the planet as a whole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong>See also in CEBE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/cebe\/chapter\/environmental-ethics\/\">Environmental Ethics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Further Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anderson, Ray. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0964595354\/ethics\">Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model.<\/a>\u00a0Peregrinzilla Press, 1999.<\/li>\n<li>Newton, Lisa. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0130617962\/ethics\"><em>Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainability and the Moral Life<\/em><\/a>. 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