a road-map, an action plan
for achieving sustainability in any activity that uses resources and where immediate and intergenerational replication is demanded. As such, sustainable development is
the organizing principle for sustaining finite resources necessary to provide for the needs of future generations of life on the planet.
It is a process that envisions a desirable future state for human societies in which living conditions and resource-use continue to meet human needs without undermining the "integrity, stability and beauty" of natural biotic systems.