sustainable community
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- noun
- Specialized
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comunidad sostenible
- Local governments are investing in sustainable communities to ensure long-term ecological health and resilience.
- sustainable communities and livelihoods
Examples
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We are creating sustainable communities for our children.
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The goal of the conference was to share strategies for creating sustainable communities that minimize environmental damage.
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In particular, architects learned about how to achieve sustainable communities in the future through green projects.
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But, as a result of a strategic planning process for our sustainable communities initiative, we have chosen three for special emphasis.
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Fifteen such processes are being increasingly used on a local level in sustainable community initiatives.
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Taken as a whole, the goals of developing sustainable communities or sustainable livelihoods are important ends upon which most would agree.
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Rather than considering problems separately, sustainable communities address issues as interconnected parts of the whole challenge of creating a more pleasant living environment.
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It focused on developing a sustainable community of agriculturalists producing surpluses for regional markets.
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A sustainable community is described by the Sustainable Communities Network as a place that is environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially equitable.
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Many towns are now developing sustainable communities that prioritize green spaces and renewable energy sources.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'sustainable' (able to be continued without harming resources) directly modifies 'community' (people living together), so the meaning 'a community that can be maintained without depleting resources' follows from the constituents. This adjective+noun pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common semantic combination, so an average B1 learner who knows both words should understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun sustainable community mixes sustainable ('able to last') and community ('people living together'); picture a neighbourhood like a garden that uses local food, solar power and recycling so it keeps going without using everything up. That's why the term means a place planned to 'help the environment' and 'last a long time'.