# Outline of sustainability

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to sustainability:
Sustainability – capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of stewardship and responsible resource management.

## Essence of sustainability

* Environmentalism
* Environmental ethics
* Planetary boundaries
* Sustainable development
* Sustainability science
* Sustainability accounting
* Sustainability governance
* Sustainability education

## Taxonomy

Sustainability is divided into two main branches: sustainability science and sustainability governance. Each of these branches is divided into a number of subfields:

### Sub-fields of sustainability science

* Environmental impact assessment
* Environmental psychology
* Environmental philosophy
* Environmental law
* Sustainability measurement

### Sub-fields of sustainability governance

* Economic sector:
** Circular economy
** Steady-state economy
** Sustainable art
** Sustainable advertising
** Sustainable architecture
*** New Classical Architecture
** Sustainable business
** Sustainable fashion
** Sustainable industries
*** Hannover Principles
** Sustainable landscape architecture
** Sustainable packaging
** Sustainable procurement
** Sustainable tourism
** Sustainable transport
* Political
* Organizational
** Fisheries management
** Sustainable forest management
** Sustainable city
*** New Urbanism
*** Eco-cities
*** Sustainable urban infrastructure
*** Sustainable urban drainage systems
*** Sustainable urban planning
** Sustainable community
*** Sustainable Communities Plan
** Sustainability reporting
* Activity
** Sustainable design
** Sustainable living
** Sustainable yield

### Related disciplines

* Conservation biology
* Ecological humanities
* Environmental biotechnology
* Environmental chemistry
* Environmental design
* Environmental economics
* Environmental engineering
* Environmental ethics
* Environmental history
* Environmental law
* Environmental psychology
* Environmental science
* Environmental sociology
* Green politics

## Biodiversity

see also: Biodiversity
* Biosecurity
* Ecosystem services
* Ecosystem-based management
* Ecosystem management
* Endangered species
* Holocene extinction event
* Invasive species
* Nature conservation

### Levels of biological organisation

* Biosphere
* Biome

## Politics of sustainability

* Rio Declaration on Environment and Development
* International reports and agreements
** United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
** Brundtlandt Commission Report, 1983
*** Our Common Future, 1987
** Earth Summit (1992)
** Agenda 21 (1992)
** Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
** ICPD Programme of Action (1994)
** Earth Charter
** Millennium Declaration (2000)
** Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005)
* Politics of global warming
** Climate change policy of the United States
** Climate change in China

## Population control

Population control
* Birth control
* Carrying capacity
* Family planning
* Human overpopulation
* Sustainable population
* Unintended pregnancy
* Zero population growth

## Environmental technology

* Sustainable energy
* Sustainable sanitation
* Renewable energy
** Biofuel
** Biomass
** Geothermal power
** Hydroelectricity
** Solar energy
** Tidal power
** Wave power
** Wind power

### Energy conservation

* Carbon footprint
* Emissions trading
* Energy descent
* Peak oil
* Renewable energy (see above)

### Over consumption

* Anti-consumerism
* Ecological footprint
* Ethical consumerism
* Tragedy of the commons
* Micro-sustainability

### Food

* Food security
* Local food
* Permaculture
* Sustainable agriculture
* Sustainable gardening
* Sustainable fisheries
* Urban horticulture

### Water

* Water footprint
* Water crisis
* Water efficiency
* Water conservation

### Materials

* Industrial ecology
* Recycling
* Waste
* Zero waste

## Sustainability organizations

* Association of Environmental Professionals

## Sustainability publications

Sustainability (journal)

## Sustainability advocates

* Category:Sustainability advocates