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Sustainable development is defined in many different ways, but the most cited definition is from Our Common Future, also referred to as the Brundtland Report: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
About 193 countries have signed on to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), of which there are 17 in total, by 2030. The SDGs cover social, economic and environmental issues including poverty, hunger, health, education, climate change, gender equality, water, employment, infrastructure, energy, urbanization, inequality, biodiversity, social justice, and partnership.
Resilience is the ability of communities and ecosystems to be prepared for shocks, recover from shocks, and “bounce forward” to emerge stronger than they were before. To build community resilience means to build a community’s capacity to do just that. Read more
Fields of achievement of the individual, or organization, or company being nominated for the ICIMOD Mountain Prize can be in any of (but not limited to) the following work areas: