The ability of communities and humanity as a whole, to respond, adapt, and sustain the resilience needed to
maintain ecological sustainability and equity in the face of external and internal forces of change, including through respecting conditions, like diversity, enabling the resilience of nature.
Not exact matches
The objective of the EEZ Act is the familiar
sustainability rhetoric — enable economic growth while
maintaining ecological integrity — but it is tricky business because these are large capital - intensive projects in remote locations that bring environmental risks that are considered low probability with severe consequences.
Ecological citizenship is the framework in which we can see both the need for individual responsibility and the absurdity in laying the onus of responsibility on the individual, both the ecology that sustains communities and the
sustainability demanded from communities in order to
maintain a balanced ecology.
The term «
sustainability» is a normative concept that suggests the continuation of
ecological, economic, cultural, political and other factors that society deems important to
maintain over the long term.
• Promote reform of industrial agriculture to agro-
ecological systems such as permaculture, within the context of protecting and restoring adequate terrestrial systems necessary to
maintain biodiversity, ecosystems and achieve global
ecological sustainability.