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Sustainable Development
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Activity 1
What is the definition of Sustainable development as quoted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development 
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The Brundtland Commission's definition of sustainable development is development that "meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Activity 2
Use the glossary of terms related to
sustainability at: http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/modules/glossary.html to find explanations of the following terms:
- Deforestation is the process of clearing forests.
- An ecosystem is a community of plants and animals existing in an environment that supplies them with water, air and other elements they need for life.
- A renewable resource is able to be replaced or replenished, either by the Earth's natural processes or by human action. Air, water and forests are often considered to be example of renewable resources.
- Resources are the machines, workers, money, land, raw materials and other things that can be used to produce goods and services and to make a country's economy grow.
Source: The World Bank Group, DEPweb site, http://www.worldbank.org/depweb/english/modules/glossary.html . Viewed on 27 March 2003.
Activity 3
List the areas with which Industrial Ecology (symbosis) is concerned from http://www.eoearth.org/article/Industrial_symbiosis .
- embedded energy and materials
- life cycle perspective
- cascading
- loop closing
- tracking material flow
- industrial inventories
- input/output matching
- stakeholder processes
- materials bedgeting
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