sustainability

sustainable | American Dictionary

sustainable
adjective
us/səˈsteɪ·nə·bəl/
able to be maintained or continued:
The growth momentum is likely to be sustainable into next year.

sustainability

noun[ U ]us/səˌsteɪ·nəˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
We remain committed to ensuring sustainability of our social security system.

sustainable | Business English

sustainable
adjective
uk /səˈsteɪnəbl/us
able to continue at the same level for a period of time:
Marketing plays a key role in a company's plan for sustainable business development.
sustainable/growth/success/valueThe question of how to achieve long-term sustainable growth in shareholder value is re-emerging.
ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES
using methods that do not harm the environment so that natural resources are still available in the future:
The ethical brand donates 10% of profits to support sustainable development.
sustainable communities/energy sources

Examples of sustainable

sustainable
The operations are set up to cut timber from 1,000 hectares of rainforest in an ecologically sustainable manner.
Intensive rotational grazing is an example of a sustainable agricultural practice that takes a systems approach.
As far as the literature on sustainable development is concerned, this tends to view economic growth as limited by the finiteness of environmental resources.
Approaches to developing sustainable extraction systems for tropical forest products.
If these differing notions of sustainability are to have operational consequences, then measures of progress towards sustainable development are required.
Though more costly, the more sustainable option is the use of green manures.
So it is assumed that natural resource use declines during an adjustment process which ends as soon a sustainable resource use is reached.
First, because we should deal with resources in a responsible, sustainable manner.
The cost of meeting these standards to the industry can be regarded as the cost of environmentally sustainable industrial development.
With steadily increasing demand for palm oil, the authors suggest that a major opportunity exists for environmentally and socially sustainable expansion of smallholder production.
Finally, productivity must also be considered when comparing agricultural systems, as a farm must be economically, as well as ecologically, sustainable.
The difference in sustainable-equivalent utility between any two comparison economies is just exactly the answer to the following standard question of classical static welfare analysis.
Evaluating projects and assessing a sustainable development in imperfect economies.
Macroeconomic adjustments should stimulate sustainable developments rather than furthering unsustainability; where they do lead to environmental degradation, compensatory projects might provide a short-term retrofitting option.
With long fallow periods and large areas of undisturbed forests, swidden agriculture does provide a balanced, sustainable system.
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