Development and challenges to development
The sustainability path involves the merging of the historically distinct and often conflicting goals of development and conservation, which requires that societies work to:
The path to sustainability depends on effective governance with appropriate institutions, policies, strategies, collaborations, and technologies in a just transition that moves society toward the proper state in a process of continuous improvement. The ideal consists of the simultaneous establishment of the two spatially and temporally essential and universal conditions — "ecological integrity" and "social justice" — that must be maintained over the long haul. Sustainable strategies must also become culturally acceptable, economically viable, and politically doable.
