JD Marshall and MW Toffel. 2005. Framing the elusive concept of sustainability: a sustainability hierarchy," Environmental Science & Technology, 39(3): 673-682
Marshal and Toffel provide an overview of how sustainability is viewed in various industries/organizations and help limit the scope of sustainability for scientific research. This reading will also be useful in discussions later in the term as it provides a hierarchy for prioritizing sustainability objectives.
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