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Definitions of sustainable development
| Author (year) | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kuszczyk, 2020 | People are responsible for the welfare of the contemporary and future generation. The implementation of the commitment requires cautious and lasting use of the natural environment. |
| Urbaniec, 2016 | A change in management manner taking into account a systemic and integrated approach of an interdisciplinary character. |
| Kołodko, 2014 | A new trend of social and economic development throughout the world. |
| Burchard-Dziubińska, 2014 | The best possible way to arrange the modern world, giving an opportunity for sustainable and equitable development of human society, both on a global and local scale. |
| Borys, 2011 | A process directed as meeting developmental targets of the current generation in a manner that allows implementation of the same needs by next generations. |
| Mayeda, 2004 | Principle of shared but differentiated responsibility and caution. |
| Our Common Future: Report from the UN World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987 | The development process (of countries, cities, business, communities) that unconditionally connects the needs of the present generation with the ability to meet the needs of future generations, as well as the needs of some people with the needs of others. |