Answer to Question #258431 in Ecology for Josh

Question

i. What is the difference between Weak Sustainability and False Assumptions?

ii. There are some economic tools for sustainability that can be put into practice. Give at least four.

Answer 1

Weak sustainability is characterized by a non-declining combined stock of capital and assumes that man-made capital can be replaced with natural capital. Strong sustainability, on the other hand, implies that natural capital cannot be replaced by any other capital.