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Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is an approach to development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own, integrating environmental protection, social equity and economic viability. Formalised through international frameworks and the Sustainable Development Goals, it tr…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 40× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2637-6075 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Sustainable development is an approach to development that meets present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own, integrating environmental protection, social equity and economic viability. Formalised through international frameworks and the Sustainable Development Goals, it treats ecological, social and economic objectives as interdependent and seeks pathways that maintain natural capital, ecosystem services and human well-being over the long term. Core principles include intergenerational equity, the precautionary management of finite resources, resilience to environmental change, and the internalisation of environmental and social costs into development decisions. Operationalising sustainability requires assessment across sectors, agriculture, water, energy, health and education, and attention to climate change, land degradation, food security and the equitable engagement of communities, including marginalised and rural populations. Research collected under this term reflects these dimensions: permaculture and sustainable agriculture, women's engagement in environmental conservation, green-economy links to occupational health and safety, groundwater as a developmental heritage, the climate-change, land-degradation and food-security nexus, and the use of human-development indicators to monitor crises. The peer-reviewed literature in this area spans environmental management, agricultural and water sustainability, public health and social inclusion, connecting ecological constraints with the social and economic dimensions of development practice and policy.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 40 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Sustainable Development, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Plant and Animal Ecology (ISSN 2637-6075).

Journal editorial board
Dimitris Zianis · Greece Jasmin Mantilla Contreras · Germany Narcisa Vrinceanu · Romania

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