Sustainable Development Definition

noun

(agriculture, ecology) Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations' ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of the nature. In other words, it's trying to protect the environment.

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Singular:
sustainable development
Plural:
sustainable developments

Sustainable Development Sentence Examples

  • Trade unions at the Earth Summit You may think sustainable development has very little to do with trade unions.

  • The Sustainable Development Commission welcomes the White Paper and the priority given to reducing health inequalities and tackling the wider determinants of health.

  • The Commission has tabled proposals to refocus strongly on growth, jobs, the knowledge-based economy and sustainable development to strengthen European competitiveness.

  • The Government recognizes that progress toward sustainable development has in the past been hampered by failure to take proper account of the environmental elements.

  • Two further regulatory constraints to sustainable development of brownfield land relate to land filling of contaminated soil.

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