While ‘sustainability’ can be understood, prioritized, acted on, and measured in different ways, it essentially concerns with how we manage and use natural resources now and for the future, but also underscores social and economic aspects of our greater wellbeing. The related concept ‘sustainable development’ sees sustainability through a long-term growth lens by bringing three core pillars together: economic, social, and environmental sustainability. Another step forward, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Framework offers paths along a sustainability journey agreed upon by world leaders in late 2015 for a 15-year time-span.
Author(s)
Haseeb Irfanullah
Publisher
The Scholarly Kitchen
Categories
Article, E&S Committee