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Eric Lindblom

Project Lead

Harvard

(h2o)

Sustainable:

Sustainable development

"Sustainable development is the process of balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the Natural environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite future. The term was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own need."^[1]

United Nations. 1987. "Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development." General Assembly Resolution 42/187, 11 December 1987. Retrieved: 2007-04-12

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development

The United Nations

"Concerned about the accelerating deterioration of the human environment
and natural resources and the consequences of that deterioration for economic
and social development,

      Believing that sustainable development, which implies meeting the needs
of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs, should become a central guiding principle of the United
Nations, Governments and private institutions, organizations and enterprises,

      Recognizing, in view of the global character of major environmental
problems, the common interest of all countries to pursue policies aimed at
sustainable and environmentally sound development,

      Convinced of the importance of a reorientation of national and
international policies towards sustainable development patterns"

The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).

http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/42/ares42-187.htm

"The Division for Sustainable Development promotes sustainable development as the substantive secretariat to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and through technical cooperation and capacity-building at the international, regional and national levels."

http://www.un.org/issues/m-susdev.html

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/sids/sids_poa.htm

http://www.sivglobal.org/?

Sustainability

1 At least ecological

2 Definitions, metrics and indices