APPLYING SUSTAINABILITY BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY TARGETS
APPLYING SUSTAINABILITY BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY TARGETS

Summary/Abstract: During the years human economic activities, as industrial, agricultural, and commercial ones have been developed in different areas in order to support an increase of humanity quality of life. Nevertheless various experiences have pointed out that human activities have not only positive direct impacts on society but also negative, unwanted and sometimes unthought impacts on environment and society. As a consequence, humanity is nowadays confronting itself with several challenges on local, regional, national, and even on global level. In this regard debates started for finding best solutions for created situations and from these debates the concept of sustainable development arisen, being defined 1987in the Brundtland-Report. Considering sustainability, chances and challenges of different technological applications have to be carefully analyzed and assessed, what is feasible to bed one by Technology Assessment. With regard to Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs, for assessing multidisciplinary impacts of industrial activities, as technological, environmental and social impacts, physical, technological, environmental an social targets are to be considered. Applying sustainability actually means simultaneously considering different aspects from different fields, what implies taking into account multidisciplinary approaches. Considering multidisciplinary, the role of physics, and engineering in this regard is pointed out in order to meet the growing demand on natural resources, especially connected to energy supply for covering the constantly growing energy demand. This is representing a challenge also for social and political field, and it follows that in order to comprehensively assess multidisciplinary impacts of technological applications with regard to assuring sustainability and humanity quality of life several multidisciplinary approaches are to be considered.

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