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Sustainability: Definition and Five Core Principles
sustainability : Definition andFive Core PrinciplesA New FrameworkMichael Ben-EliThe concept of sustainable development, as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development, and with it, the term sustainability itself, have been gaining increasing recognition in recent years all around the world. Widespread use, however, has led to growing ambiguity, so that today both terms are employed within a very broad spectrum of meaning, often to the point of trivialization. The Definition and set of five sustainability Principles proposed below seeks to advance and restore rigor to the ideas underlying the concept of sustainability . Its development was informed by a number of existing frameworks and was inspired, in particular, by the work of R. Buckminster Principles are articulated in a general fashion but can receive specific operational meaning in relation to particular cases, for example: sectors of the economy, development issues, business strategies, investment guidelines, or initiatives taken by individuals.
The concept of “sustainable development,” as coined by the World Commission on Environment and Development, and with it, the term “sustainability” itself, have been
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