ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES SUSTAINABILITY - ADAPTATION TO CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Abstract

Humanity has exceeded the carrying capacity of the global environment. The positive aspect concerning the extensive use is that sustainability receives an increasing interest in society. Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The concept of sustainable development can be interpreted in many different ways, but at its core is an approach to development that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations we face as a society. It is the basic need to make wise and efficient use of renewable and non-renewable resources & enhance the long-term productive capability, quality and capacity of natural ecosystems to maintain the environmental balance. In the way to social development,  Equity, refers to the idea that all people throughout a community, whether a village, town, city, country or the entire world, have these same basic needs that must be taken into consideration. Sustainable economic growth will require societies to create the conditions that allow people to have quality jobs that stimulate the economy.