What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is a contestable concept—it is more a symbol, a rallying point for a challenge to the dominance of neoliberal economics than a clearly specifiable philosophy. The conflicts in this century, as with economic progress in the last, will be to shape it and to work out its implications for social organization. Nevertheless we can attempt a definition.
Sustainability results from activities that
Enhance the planet's ability to maintain and renew the viability of the biosphere and protect all living species.
Enhance society's ability to maintain itself and to solve its major problems.
Maintain a decent level of welfare for present and future generations of humanity.
Extend the socially useful life of organizations ...
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