What is sustainable development ?

Formulated by the Commission on Environment and Development United Nations in 1987.

“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

When you think of the world as a system over space, you grow to understand that air pollution from North America affects air quality in Asia, and that pesticides sprayed in Argentina could harm fish stocks off the coast of Australia.

And when you think of the world as a system over time, you start to realize that the decisions our grandparents made about how to farm the land continue to affect agricultural practice today; and the economic policies we endorse today will have an impact on urban poverty when our children are adults.

Sustainable development rests on:

• It is possible and necessary.
• It should be sustainable , lasting and viable in time.
• The sustainability should be threefold:
  • Social sustainability.
  • Environmental sustainability.
  • Economic sustainability.