Sustainable Development Initiatives

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being which has environmental economic and social dimensions and encompasses the concept of stewardship the responsible management of resource use. In ecology sustainability describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time a necessary precondition for human well-being. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. Healthy ecosystems and environments provide vital goods and services to humans and other organisms. There are two major ways of managing human impact on ecosystem services. One approach is environmental management; this approach is based largely on information gained from earth science environmental science and conservation biology. Another approach is management of consumption of resources which is based largely on information gained from economics.