Definitions of Environmental Sustainability on the Web:

• Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. …
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_sustainability
• Ensuring that the overall productivity of accumulated human and physical capital resulting from development actions more than compensates for the direct or indirect loss or degradation of the environment. …
  web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTOED/EXTENVIRONMENT/0,,contentMDK:21813865~menuPK:5189977~pagePK:64829573~piPK:64829550~theSitePK:4681890,00.html
• The assessment that a projects outputs can be produced without permanent and unacceptable change in the natural environment on which it and other economic activities depend, over the life of the project.
  www.adb.org/documents/guidelines/Eco_Analysis/glossary.asp
• A movement towards redesigning the ways society’s needs and wants are met so that they can be accommodated within the long-term carrying capacity of the environment.
  www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage____32084.aspx
• Long-term maintenance of ecosystem components and functions for future generations.
  www.throughthewoods.us/gogreen_glossary.html
• Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. …
  www.fao.org/ag/wfe2005/glossary_en.htm
• Practices to ensure that the natural resource capital remains intact; ie, that the source and sink functions of the environment should not be degraded. …
  sustainablelanduse.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/some-terminology-definitions-sustainability-land-use-impact-assessment/

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