Nonrenewable resources in economic, social, and environmental sustainability |
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| Authors: | Deborah J Shields |
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| Institution: | (1) USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 3825 E. Mulberry St., 80524 Ft.Collins, Colorado |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews the linkages among energy and mineral resources and economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
Nonrenewable resources are shown to be integral components of sustainability, regardless of which paradigmatic definition
of the concept is invoked. Potential measures of the degree to which nonrenewable resources contribute to or detract from
sustainability are presented. We conclude that a set of such measures should be incorporated in the comprehensive framework
of sustainability currently being developed by the Federal government. National scale indicators could be presented within
the structure of the seven criteria from the Santiago Declaration, whereas a life cycle or materials flow approach could be
used when sustainability of specific resources is at issue. |
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| Keywords: | Sustainability finite resources opportunity cost criteria and indicators two-tiered approach |
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