Sustainability

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-027452",
  "term": "Sustainability",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. Long-term management of ecosystems to meet the needs of present human populations without interruption, weakening, or loss of the resource base for future generations.\n\n2. Maintaining an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources.\n\n3. A popular definition is \"Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.\" Sustainable development marries two important themes: that economic development must be ecologically viable now and in the long run, and that environmental protection does not preclude economic development.\n\n4. A holistic approach that considers environmental, economic, and societal implications in determining potential solutions to an issue. It is defined in the United Nations General Assembly's 1987 document titled Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future as decisions the \"meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.\"\n\n5. A concept based in the principle that humans depend on the natural environment for survival and well-being, and that humans and nature can exist in productive harmony. Sustainability is the conditions that ensure that human impact on the environment is sufficiently mitigated in pursuit of the protection of natural resources and of future generations' access to water, material, resources, and social and economic requirements.\n\n6. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.\n\n7. Improving the economy, the environment, and society for the benefit of current and future generations.\n\n8. Continued protection of human health and the environment while enhancing economic prosperity and societal well-being.\n\n9. Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.\n\n10. The continued protection of human health and the environment while enhancing economic prosperity and societal well-being.",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary",
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary",
    "Top Green Home Terms",
    "Safety, Health, and Environmental Management System Terms and Definitions",
    "Glossary of Sustainable Manufacturing Terms",
    "EPA Path Forward Glossary",
    "Report on the Environment (ROE) Glossary",
    "Recommendations for Integrating Environmental Justice into the EPA's Research Enterprise June 30, 2014 A Report of Recommendations of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council A federal advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-02/documents/nejac-research-recommendations-2014.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/sustainability/"
}