- Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Brundtland Report 1987)
The UsitawiNetwork supports projects
- which promote, spread and put into effect the idea of sustainable management.
- which encourage economic and social development, taking ecological factors into account and providing scope for personal responsibility and initiative.
- which improve the situation of the biosphere and recognize, eliminate or at least reduce potential sources of risk to ecosystems.
- which promote the economical use of resources, for example by enhancing efficient consumption and by safeguarding renewability.
