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http://blogs.adb.org/blog/making-sustainability-work
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Making sustainability work | Asian Development Blog
For a long time, sustainability has been thought of as an environmental issue that represented an unwelcome trade-off with strong economic growth. More recently, as countries grapple with the perils of climate change and income disparities, sustainability has come to encompass a more mutually dependent set of environmental, economic, and social goals. Failure in one area, it is increasingly understood, threaten progress in others. As we are already seeing in Asia, dramatic environmental degradation and rising social inequality hurt economic performance. #ThinkSustainable bit.do/sustainability2015