Three Legged Stool Sustainability

The three legged stool is an old phrase that many financial planners once used to describe the three most common sources of retirement income.

Three legged stool sustainability.

Economic environmental and social cultural. However if all three legs are the same length each pillar being given equal weight the result will be a balanced stool that will support sustainable development. In part 1 of this article we defined sustainable development as a balanced approach to achieving a better quality of life for more people while minimizing the impact that the associated development has on the natural world. It is widely agreed that there are three primary aspects to sustainable development that together create a three legged stool upon which a healthy society can sit.

The faulty three legged stool model of sustainable development. The model is conceptually considered as the three legged stool hasna 2006 of sustainability in that each of the legs is equally important in building a sustainability standard that is sound and balanced. Our state sustainability index is designed for citizens activists and policy makers to gauge how their respective states rank amongst. The 3 legged stool metaphor reinforces the three dimensions that are required for us to enjoy a high quality of life and shows that society is unstable if one of them is weak.

3 legged stool modelfor years i have used the adjacent slide to illustrate the common three dimensions of sustainability.