ABSTRACT
Sustainability has been framed in terms of a broad range of objectives: meeting basic human needs while maintaining ecological processes and life-support systems, preserving genetic diversity, and ensuring sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems. Health status and commitment are aspects of human capital important for sustainability. Manufactured capital is composed of physical infrastructure such as machinery, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, housing, office buildings, schools, roads, sewers, factories and water systems. Financial capital is turned into manufactured capital by either the private or public sector. Social capital for sustainability depends on strengthening communities of interest and communities of place. L. A. Thrupp's work suggests that availability of cooking fuel is an important gendered indicator of sustainability. A study of pastoral women in milk processing and marketing in Zonkwa, Central Nigeria suggests the gendered nature of social capital and how shifting control of manufactured capital can destroy it, leading to declining community sustainability.
