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n. (context agriculture ecology English) development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations' ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of nature.
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Sustainable development is a process for meeting human development goals while sustaining the ability of natural systems to continue to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depends. While the modern concept of sustainable development is derived most strongly from the 1987 Brundtland Report, it is rooted in earlier ideas about sustainable forest management and twentieth century environmental concerns. As the concept developed, it has shifted to focus more on economic development, social development and environmental protection.
Sustainable development is the organizing principle for sustaining finite resources necessary to provide for the needs of future generations of life on the planet. It is a process that envisions a desirable future state for human societies in which living conditions and resource-use continue to meet human needs without undermining the "integrity, stability and beauty" of natural biotic systems.
Usage examples of "sustainable development".
The goal of Martian economics is not 'sustainable development' but a sustainable prosperity for its entire biosphere.
The World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development may be operating by the time this article appears.
Reprinted in The Sustainable Development Syllabus, available at 800-544-8927.
Despite his incomplete recovery from a broken leg, His Holiness Pope John Paul II was vigorous in discussing world issues, ranging from whether religious liberty could be secured in China to the possibilities of cooperation with moderate Muslim countries to our differences over how best to limit population explosion and promote sustainable development in poor nations.
It would have even supported some careful sustainable development.
Rhodes Confession of Faith, available from Alfred Milner's papers at Rhodes House, Professor Quigley's papers at Georgetown University, or in the Sustainable Development Syllabus from Radio Liberty at PO.
Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes Confession o f Faith, found among Lord Milner's papers, or available in The Sustainable Development Syllabus, P.
In the meantime, on crutches, he traveled to forty states and four foreign countries, including Egypt, where he brokered a compromise on the sensitive issue of population control at the Cairo Conference on Sustainable Development.