Sustainable Development

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Definition

Sustainable Development. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [1] i.e. by bequeathing to its successor at least as large a productive base as it had inherited from its predecessor.

References

  1. Brundtland report