"Sustainable Development is development that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs" Sustainability embodies
"stewardship" and "design with nature," well established goals
of the design professions and "carrying capacity," a highly
developed modeling technique used by scientists and planners.
The most popular definition of sustainability can be traced to a
1987 UN conference. It defined sustainable developments as those
that "meet present needs without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their needs"(WECD, 1987). Robert
Gillman, editor of the In Context magazine, extends this goal
oriented definition by stating "sustainability refers to a very
old and simple concept (The Golden Rule)...do onto future
generations as you would have them do onto you." These well-
established definitions set an ideal premise, but do not clarify
specific human and environmental parameters for modeling and
measuring sustainable developments. Th