Resumen

KAMMERBAUER, Johann. Las dimensiones de la sostenibilidad: Fundamentos ecológicos, modelos paradigmáticos y senderos. INCI [online]. 2001, vol.26, n.8, pp.353-359. ISSN 0378-1844.

With the environmental crisis in the last decades appears the directive image of a sustainable development or the sustainability in its ecological, economic and social dimensions. From the ecological perspective some characteristics and processes are fundamental for the analysis: the systemic character and complexity of the ecosystems, the myth of a stable ecological equilibrium, resiliency and irreversibility, the intrinsic sustainability of ecosystems and the phenomena of global and regional concentration and dispersion of resources and wastes. The paradigm of sustainablity can be grouped in three interpretative models: (1) under an analytical vision, (2) a holistic vision and (3) a normative model. The first approach results in the principle of rational resource management with its respective indicators of cause-state-effect-reaction. The holistic vision, considering the intrinsic uncertainty of ecosystems, results in the principle of precaution in resource management and defines indicators like the carrying capacity. Whilst the normative model tries to define objectives and indicators in a complex management situation through a consensus process involving the affected and interested groups. It is possible to identify pathways of unsustainability and sustainability. The environmental sciences provide monitoring instruments, but finally, due to its normative character, sustainability is a policy objective and therefore is part of a responsibility ethic.

Palabras clave : Sostenibilidad ; Modelos Analíticos; Holísticos; Normativos ; Políticas de Desarrollo ; Ética de Responsabilidad .