Sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the current need without reducing the capability of the next generation to meet their need (UNCED, 1992). To ensure that a development process is sustainable, we need to integrate economic development, social development and ecological conservation in a balanced and stable equilibrium. Thus sustainable development refers to continuous and balanced efforts that are neither directed towards an extremism of economic exploitation, nor toward social and or ecological extremism.

"Development never puts our planet at risk of self-destruction, our greed does"