sustainability

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The extent to which new formats for working and improved outcomes become the standard, the thinking and attitudes behind them fundamentally altered, and the systems surrounding them transformed.

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The optimisation of the interactions between humans and nature, such that economies can be maintained at a desirable level of growth and productivity without environmental degradation, which compromises future growth and productivity.

sustainability

the commercial/economic use of resources which can be replaced and not depleted i.e. sustainable resources.

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