Sustainability notes on strong and weak sustainability, manufactured and natural capital

Abstract

The general objective of this review article is to characterize the category of sustainability, taking as a starting point its history from the 1960s to the present and, secondly, its relationship with different (strong and weak) sustainability and the different capitals (natural and transformed) as variables to understand and solve the problems of the 21st century. The methodology is qualitative and the method is of document revision by matrices. The methodology is qualitative and the method is of document revision by matrices. The main conclusion, is that sustainability is a broad category that can be understood from the sciences of sustainability as the resilient capacity that an ecosystem has in the face of disturbances and also from the economic postulates where there is a difference between strong sustainability and weak.