Look up: sustainability

1. Sustainability
   Refers to moves by charities to move beyond short-term funding for their activities, to more durable and dependable funding so that work is adequately supported and expansion is possible where necessary. Strategies include selling products or services such as publications or consultancy. The NCVO ha...
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2. sustainability
   [n] - the property of being sustainable
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3. Sustainability
   Making decisions for the present which do not compromise future decisions.
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4. Sustainability
   Sustainability may best be defined as the 'capacity for continuance into the long-term future'. Anything that can go on being done on an indefinite basis is sustainable. Anything that cannot go on being done indefinitely is unsustainable.
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5. Sustainability
   The degree to which flood and coastal defence solutions avoid tying future generations into flexible and/or expensive options for defence. This will usually include consideration of inter-relationships with other defences and likely developments and processes within a catchment or coastal cell.
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6. Sustainability
   Something is sustainable if you can carry on doing it indefinitely. If you can't - it isn't. Jonathen Porritt
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7. sustainability
   (Learning Modules / Geography / Urban sustainability) Making decisions for the present which do not compromise future decisions.
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8. sustainability
   the extent to which the objectives of an aid activity will continue after the project assistance is over Category: Management in the public and private sector • the extent to which the partner organisations and target groups are willing and able to self-reliantly continue and further dev...
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9. Sustainability
   developing to meet present needs, without affecting the ability of future generations to develop to meet their own needs. Now used as a very relevant and occasionally telling argument for the retention of buildings.
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10. sustainability
    noun the property of being sustainable
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11. sustainability
    (L: sub=under/toward; tenere to hold; keeping toward) activity maintained continuously over a long period. Sustainability is an ambiguous word, since it is used for economic sustainability paying its way, but not necessarily forever. Environmental sustainability maintaining the environmental but not...
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12. Sustainability
    Finding a way to improve quality of life for people today and in the future by breaking the link between economic growth and environmental damage and social exclusion. For example, a new development which creates jobs being constructed beside public transport links.
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13. Sustainability
    " NASA composite images: 2001 (left), 2002 (right). `Sustainability` is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans, ...
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