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The property of being sustainable
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sustainability
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n. the property of being sustainable
Wikipedia
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In ecology , sustainability (from sustain and ability ) is the property of biological systems that remain diverse and productive indefinitely. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1907, in reference to a legal objection, from sustainable + -ity . General sense (in economics, agriculture, ecology) by 1972.\n\nSustainability is defined as a requirement of our generation to manage the resource base such that the average quality of life ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The ability to sustain something. 2 (context ecology English) A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while ...
Usage examples of sustainability.
A short, witty, stinging review of sustainability, climate change, and the precautionary principle by an Oxford economist and former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution who cares more about the poor of the world than he does the elitist egos of Western environmentalists.
Given the high likelihood of armed insurrection, you are further instructed to act independently in assessing and countering threats to the long-term security of this planet and the sustainability of its status as a Concordiat-allied world with treaty obligations to fulfill.
Because there were no underground petrochemical deposits left, nor coal or natural gas, their technology was based around the concept of sustainability, benign and in harmony with the ecosystem.
As they did, new design concepts were enacted, bringing the old Mosdva dictum of sustainability to the fore, enabling them to maximise their use of dwindling mass resources.