Sustainability in Business

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BSNS7730 Sustainability in Business
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SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS
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SUSTAINABILITY IN BUSINESS
Discussion
1. The scientific principles of sustainability gives base to the structure of natural step (TNS),
having focus on the origination of the relationship between cause and effect besides
integrating broader environment and socio-economic system in its thinking. According to
Alexius & Furusten (2019), this framework has been designed correspondingly to the
actions and conduct that are direct for working towards the achieving sustainability.
Discussed briefly below are the elements of the TNS framework:
Four System Conditions: popularly known as the sustainability principles, was put forward by
scientists globally. It contributes in specifying the elementary circumstances required to fulfil for
achieving and maintaining sustainability. The four conditions are:
1. Substances extracted from Earth’s crust cannot increase into the biosphere
systematically, it means that one cannot extract fossil fuels, metals, and other minerals from the
Earth’s crust at a rate faster than they are re-deposited.
2. Society produced substances cannot increase in the biosphere systematically, which
means that people should not produce substances should not at a rate faster than they break down
in nature.
3. Physical base of the nature’s productivity and diversity should not be consistently
degenerate, it means that the ecosystems cannot be harvested or manipulated by people that
decline their capacity to produce, or risks the natural diversity of life forms.
4. For meeting the earlier three system conditions, use of resources for meeting the needs of
human should be fair and efficient, it means that the basic needs of humans should be met with
methods that are resource-efficient besides equitable distribution of resources.
The first three conditions are related with how humans correlate with the earth while the fourth
condition emphasizes on achieving sustainability across the worldwide community.
Backcasting: according to Eswarlal & Vallesi (2014), this process, which contributes to
determine the product, service or organization’s needs; stakeholders identification; analyse the
prevailing situations; develop future scenarios and identification and implementation of