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sustainable aviation may be to counter any growth with technological improvement
in order to keep overall impacts from rising.
I call for the following measures:
As a rule of debate, the use of 'sustainable' or its synonyms by participants must
be qualified with an explanation of interpretation.
A comprehensive study should assess aviation under all current definitions,
interpretations and analytic systems of sustainability.
Arising from this study, a brokered consensus on definitions, components and
indicators of sustainable aviation should be attempted.
New descriptive language and component terms should be developed to include
'accountable', 'acceptable', 'justifiable' and 'responsible' aviation.
From here to sustainability? In the case of aviation, there is a long way to go; but
first, let us develop a useful lexicon.
Note
1
Responses were inspected at the UK Department for Transport, Local Government and
the Regions (DTLR) library, London, January 2002.
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