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sustainable development
1. Economic development maintained within acceptable levels of global resource depletion and environmental pollution.
2. A description of efforts to guide economic growth; especially, in less-developed countries, in an environmentally sound manner, with an emphasis on natural resource conservation.

A collective term for efforts to develop technological, economic, political, and social systems, so as to provide the good, services, and amenities that people need or value, at an acceptable cost, while at the same time maintaining the natural environment so that a comparable quality of life will be available to future generations.

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