Outline of Sustainability

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The human desire to live in harmony with nature and one-another was first proposed as an international endeavour in 1987 when sustainability (as sustainable development) was formally defined by the United Nations as development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Although sustainable development has remained a key global concern, international charters like the United Nations' Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and Millennium Declaration which included the Millennium Development Goals the expression sustainable development is often replaced by the terms sustainability and sustainability science which have broadly the same meaning.