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ECC 8.3.2022 What is an accurate definition of sustainability? In the broadest sense, sustainability refers to the ability to maintain or support a process continuously over time. In business and policy contexts, sustainability seeks to prevent the depletion of natural or physical resources, so that they will remain available for the long term. ht s: www.investo edia.com investin -for-sustainabilicr-itnfact-5210477 The most often quoted definition comes from the UN World Commission on Environment and Development: `sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability offuturegenerations to meet their own needs.'htths:I/www.sustain.ucla.edu/what-is-sustainability/ Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well --being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. To pursue sustainability is to create and maintain the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony to support present and future generations. https:/Iwww.el)a.gov.1'sustainabilin,/leam-about-sustainability Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. In addition to natural resources, we also need social and economic resources. Sustainability is not just environmentalism. Embedded in most definitions of sustainability we also find concerns for social equity and economic development. htt:ps://www.tncgifl.ca/sustainabihty/files/sustainabilirt-/ what-is-sustainabilidf a: of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged sustainable techniques sustainable agriculture b: of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods sustainable society htWs://www.mer-riam-webstet.coin/dictionan,Zsustainable