Sustainable development aims to meet current needs without compromising the needs of future generations. It involves using resources in a way that prevents them from running out, and making investments, technology and institutions consistent with both present and future needs. Sustainable development has three parts - environmental sustainability to protect the environment's capacity to support life, economic sustainability to optimally employ existing resources over the long term, and social sustainability to develop community structures that maintain a healthy society for current and future members.
6. •Sustainable is a process of change in
which the exploitation of resources, the
direction of resources, the direction of
investments, the orientation of
technological development and
institutional change are made consistent
with the future as well as present needs
9. Environmental Sustainability
A state in which the demands placed on
the environment can be met without
reducing its capacity to allow all people
to live well, now and in the future.
10. Economic Sustainability.
The use of
various strategies for employing existing resources
optimally, so that that a responsible and
beneficial balance can be achieved over the longer
term.
11. Social Sustainability
The ability of
a community to develop processes and struct
ures which not only meet the needs of
its current members but also support the
ability of future generations to maintain a
healthy community.
