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Q12 (UPPCS/2023) Environment & Ecology › Ecology & Ecosystem Basics

What do we call balancing the need to use resources and also conserve them for the future?

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Sustainable development is defined as the process of balancing the need to use resources in the present while also conserving them for the future. This concept ensures that current economic and social progress does not deplete the natural capital required by future generations. It was famously defined in the 1987 Brundtland Report as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."

While resource conservation (Option B) involves using resources carefully and giving them time to get renewed, sustainable development is the overarching framework that integrates this conservation with human development needs. Reducing consumption (Option C) is merely one of the "3 Rs" (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) used to achieve sustainability.

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