3-11: Sustainable Development

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Technology vs. Impact
  
  
• Importance of Maintain Resilience in Ecosysems Seed Germination.
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Science for Sustainable Development
  
  

Websites

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  
  
• Create a Better Future
  
  
• ICLEI: Local Governments for Sustainability
  
  
• Roadmap for Sustainability: Weyerhaeuser's 2003 Citizenship and Environment Report
  
  
• Soil Biota and Biodiversity: the "Root" of Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• Ecological Footprint
  
  
• Johannesburg Summit
  
  
• International Institute for Sustainable Development.
  
  
• Sustainable Development Dimensions
  
  
• Spatial Data in Geographic Information System Format on Agricultural Chemical Use, Land Use, and Cropping Practices in the United States.
  
  
• Sustainable Consumption and Production Homepage.
  
  
• UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
  
  
• Environmental Sustainability Index
  
  
• Assessing Sustainable Development: Principles in Practice
  
  
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
  
  
• Pacific Institute of Studies in Development, Environment and Security
  
  
• Sustainable Development Dimensions
  
  

Additional References

• Naylor, R., and Co-authors, 2005: Losing the links between livestock and land. Science, 310, 1621-1622.
  
  
• McMichael, A. J., C. D. Butler, and C. Folke, 2003: New visions for addressing sustainability. Science, 302, 1919-1920.
  
  
• Williams, M., 2003: Deforesting the Earth - from Prehistory to Global Crisis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 715 pp.
  
  
• Mader, P., A. Fliessbach, D. Dubois, L. Gunst, P. Fried, and U. Niggli, 2002: Soil fertility and biodiversity in organic farming. Science, 296, 1694-1697.
  
  
• Stone, R., 2002: Caspian ecology teeters on the brink. Science, 295, 430-433.
  
  
• Watson, R., and D. Pauly, 2001: Systematic distortions in world fisheries catch trends. Nature, 414, 534-536
  
  
• Pauly, D., V. Christensen, J. Dalsgaard, R.Froese, and F. Torres, Jr., 1998: Fishing down marine food webs. Science, 279, 860-863