The Invention of Sustainability
The project supports ongoing research on historical approaches to what we now call ‘sustainability’, with a particular focus on the period 1500-1840.
A meeting on ‘The Idea of Sustainability’ was held at Harvard University on 31 October 2008. A number of the papers from that day have been published as a Forum in Modern Intellectual History April 2011:
Forum: The Idea Of Sustainability
Introduction
Emma Rothschild
The Invention Of Sustainability
Paul Warde
Environmental, Economic, And Moral Dimensions Of Sustainability In The Petroleum Industry In Austrian Galicia
Alison Frank
Maintaining (Environmental) Capital Intact
Emma Rothschild