Sustainability, as a Source of Environmental Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenlaw/8.2/44Keywords:
environmental law, sustainability, ecosystem, biodiversity, carrying capacity, socioeconomic systemAbstract
The latest research has approached the ecosystem's carrying capacity, an issue that both the specialists in demography and the specialists in human ecology inquired about, to be able to estimate based on scientific grounds the limits of natural development and of demographic growth.
The carrying capacity is a characteristic feature of every ecological system or category of ecosystems, depending on their development stages and the hierarchic stage they are part of. Consequently, the carrying capacity is the concrete expression of the stability domain expressing the ecosystem's ability to modify its structural and functional parameters under the influence of the command factors.
The stability domain of an ecosystem designates the direction in which it is developing, with the mention that the process is taking place on very large time scales, of over 100 years and is reversible, each time a strong impact from external factors is exerted on the system.
It results, in this context, that the notion of “carrying capacity” actually points to the capacity of functioning of large, complex and dynamic systems, as ecological systems are.
References
European Commission. (2018). Planeta noastră, viitorul nostru. Să combatem împreună schimbările climatice [Our planet, our future. Let's fight climate change together]. https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/youth/docs/youth_magazine_ro.pdf
Grober, U. (2004). Das gute leben neu denken. Kulturelle ressourcen für ein solares [Rethink the good life. Cultural resources for a solar]. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 37, 26-30. https://www.bpb.de/apuz/28132/das-gute-leben-neu-denken
Hrestic, M. L. (2018). Dreptul mediului [Environmental law]. Sitech.
Popescu, C. (2004). Economia protecției mediului [The economy of environmental protection]. Bibliotheca.
Popescu, C. (2008). Stări conflictuale generate de exploatarea abuzivă a pădurilor lumii [Conflict states generated by the abusive exploitation of the world's forests]. Bibliotheca.
Rifkin, J. (2004). Der Europäische traum. Die vision einer leisen supermacht [The European dream. The vision of a quiet superpower]. Campus Verlag GmbH.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2021 The Authors & LUMEN Publishing House
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant this journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as an earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
LUMEN Law Journal has an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
