Warde, Paul (Author)
Modern Intellectual History
Volume: 8, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 153-170
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “The Idea of Sustainability”
Language: English
This essay attempts something a little peculiar: a study of the genesis of a concept within discourses which did not, in fact, use the word. This is at least true of sustainability in English. The emergence of the German equivalent, Nachhaltigkeit, which might also be expressed by the idea of lasting-ness, is, however, usually dated to the use of the word nachhalthende by Hanns Carl von Carlowitz in his Sylvicultura oeconomica of 1713, the first great forestry manual of the eighteenth century. In fact, the term can be found in the 1650s.
...MoreArticle Rothschild, Emma (2011) Forum: The Idea of Sustainability: Introduction. Modern Intellectual History (pp. 147-151).
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