Mariculture is the aquaculture of the sea. Various agencies of the U.S. government are trying to establish mariculture as a sustainable and profitable industry.Sustainable mariculture, however, is intimately tied to ocean water quality. To date, the industries that regulate mariculture...

In June 1992, and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world formally endorsed the concept of sustainable development and agreed to a plan of action for achieving it -- Agenda 21. One of those nations was the United...

Since at least 1992 and the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, sustainability and sustainable development have been explicit and persistent goals for the governance and management of socio-ecological systems (SESs). However, the repeated invocation of sustainability...

Proponents of sustainable development should be worried by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC's) Fifth Assessment Report. However, they might not know that from the Summaries for Policymakers. According to the IPCC, "Delaying mitigation may reduce options for...

It is time to move past the concept of sustainability. The realities of the Anthropocene warrant this conclusion. They include unprecedented and irreversible rates of human induced biodiversity loss, exponential increases in per-capita resource consumption, and global climate change. These...