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the Brundtland definition is
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In ecology, sustainability refers to how biological systems remain diverse and productive. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which include...
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Sustaining the supply of energy and materials needed to support current levels of consumption, making them available where most needed, and addressing the environmental problems resulting from their extraction, consumption, and disposal.
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Community use of natural resources in a way that does not jeopardize the ability of future generations to live and prosper.
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Making decisions for the present which do not compromise future decisions.
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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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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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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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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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(Learning Modules / Geography / Urban sustainability) Making decisions for the present which do not compromise future decisions.
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Something is sustainable if you can carry on doing it indefinitely. If you can't - it isn't. Jonathen Porritt
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Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, or the health of the planet.
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(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 necessarily composition and quality. Sustainable ...
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Actions we take that support quality of life now and for future generations
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the Brundtland definition is Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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n] - the property of being sustainable
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(wine enjoyment) Synonym for departure; see there. Disposal Designation (also decay, finish, finish, reverberation, sustainability, tail) for the temporal retention or duration of the taste impression on the palate and tongue when tasting or enjoying a wine. In the complicated process of perception, however, not only the sense of taste(...
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The property of being environmentally sustainable; the degree to which a process or enterprise is able to be maintained or continued while avoiding the long-term depletion of natural resources.
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Evaluates steps taken by the project team to reduce the environmental impact of the project during construction and operation.
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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 has a sustainable funding project, aimed at providin...
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noun the property of being sustainable
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Ability to persist in the long-term.
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The quality of not being harmful to the environment or depleting natural resources, and there by supporting long-term ecological balance.
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