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sustainable development

Also known as SD

mode of human development that meets current demands without compromising the needs of future generations

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Sustainable development is a way of improving people's lives today while making sure we don't use up resources or damage the environment so badly that future generations can't meet their own needs. It matters because it helps us balance what we want now with protecting the world for people who will come after us.

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Sustainable Development Goals for Cleft Care.ReviewThe Journal of craniofacial surgery · 2025Mustakim KR, Eo MY, Mustakim IG et al.DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000010813
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).mSystems · 2024Gilbert JDOI: 10.1128/msystems.01140-23
Drug pollution & Sustainable Development Goals.ReviewThe Science of the total environment · 2021Domingo-Echaburu S, Dávalos LM, Orive G et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149412
Environmental issues for sustainable development.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Bajpai S, Srivastava VCDOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22681-x
Sustainable Development Goals for Textiles and Fashion.ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2023Thakker AM, Sun DDOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29453-1
Sustainable development is key to improving global kidney health.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2021DOI: 10.1038/s41581-020-00380-5
AMR and Sustainable Development Goals: at a crossroads.ReviewGlobalization and health · 2024Aslam B, Asghar R, Muzammil S et al.DOI: 10.1186/s12992-024-01046-8
Surgery, innovation, research and sustainable development.ReviewJournal of visceral surgery · 2024Slim K, Martin FDOI: 10.1016/j.jviscsurg.2023.10.005

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Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The aim is to have a society where living conditions and resources meet human needs without undermining planetary integrity. Sustainable development aims to balance the needs of the economy, environment, and society. Equitable health access is a pillar of social sustainability. The Brundtland Report, published in 1987, helped to make the concept of sustainable development better known.

Sustainable development overlaps with the idea of sustainability which is a normative concept. UNESCO formulated a distinction between the two concepts as follows: "Sustainability is often thought of as a long-term goal (i.e. a more sustainable world), while sustainable development refers to the many processes and pathways to achieve it."