Sustainability Triad

While doing research for my final research paper, I ran across an article called "Develpoing Awareness fo the Sustainablilty Concept" by Irene M. Herremans and Robin E. Reid, that seperated sustainability into three different categories: Economic values, social values, and environmental values....
The explain how each category is a value of its own; however, the sustainability domain is the area in which an organization can operate and still maintain a consistent and suitable harmony among the three main dimensions.
The economic dimension represents a system of producing, distributing, and consuming wealth.
The social deimenstion reprsents a system of living or associating in groups or communities and considers the importance of maintaining and improving human living standards.
The environmental dimension represents a system of providing integrity and prservation of ecosystems, and is concerned with the continued productivity and functioning of ecosystems.

Their main point of the article is the lack of knowledge people have in each category. As they said before, sustainablity is reached when all three values are consistent and harmony among eachother. People need to have knowledge about each category, each value. Today the average person lacks awareness of each category. The majority of the time people only concentrate on one point of the triad. They assume they are helping sustainability when in fact they are causing the triad to be unblanaced.
The authors of this article demonstrate the importance to further knowledge in each category for all people adults and children. If people become more knowledgable about each value, there is a greater chance of finding sustainability. Everything starts with becoming aware of what is going on around us...