Troika Theory of Sustainability

The Troika Theory of Sustainability, name coined by SANTOS GRACCO (www.abraao.com / articles / administrator) to defend the storyline for this century is the premise that the unfolding of its events are closely linked to the supply of civilizational demands for water, energy foods. Thus "The idea of ​​sustainability has many dimensions and assumes the ability of civilizations, societies and organizations to protracted and avoid collapse. A broad concept of sustainability encompasses environmental and ecological dimensions, demographic, cultural, social, political and institutional: Ecological Sustainability: refers to the process of knowledge base and aims to maintain natural capital stocks incorporated into productive activities. From the perspective of integral and transdisciplinary ecologies, covers all facets in which they ramify. Environmental sustainability: Refers to maintaining the carrying capacity of ecosystems and their restoration in the face of anthropogenic interference. Social sustainability: aims at improving the quality of human life. Implies the adoption of policies and redistributive universal health care, education, housing, and social equity. Sustainability policy: refers to the process of building citizenship and aims to incorporate individuals to the development process. Economic sustainability: implies efficient management of resources and is characterized by regularity of investment flows, evaluating the efficiency of macrosocial processes. Demographic sustainability: it reveals the limits of the carrying capacity of the territory and its resource base by relating the scenarios of economic growth to demographic rates, and the age composition of the economically active population. Cultural sustainability: relates to the ability to maintain the diversity of cultures, values ​​and practices on the planet, in the country or in a region. Institutional sustainability: it is able to strengthen institutional engineering endure, adapt and resist pressures. Space Sustainability: seeking fairness in inter-regional relations. Besides these, we emphasize the sustainability of supply, sustainability with respect to food, water and energy. Without sustainable supply of water, food and energy, do not hold people, cities, societies and civilizations. "(Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrés. Origins mining sustainable development in Brazil: ideas and practices. In: PADUA, José Augusto (ed. ). Development, justice and the environment. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG; São Paulo: Peirópolis, 2009, p. 65-66).