NTR: Sustainability

[pbuttigieg]

A core class for SDGIO, but deceptively complex and heavily varied in usage across stakeholder groups. The core class is going to be dryly defined. Variations placed according to their definitions (e.g. "sustainable mining")

#113 #69 #92 #88 EnvironmentOntology/envo#817

[pbuttigieg]

From the ENVO tracker submission by @TrisSN

NTR: sustainability
Definition: Sustainability is the ability to exist constantly. Defined also as the process of people maintaining change in a balanced environment, in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and enhance both current and future potential to meet human needs and aspirations.
(Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainability & https://www.globalfootprints.org/sustainability/)

Parent/child nodes: I'm not sure where this would sit. I couldn't find any sustainability terms across ontologies in OLS. However, I was, more specifically, hoping for a 'food systems sustainability' term, which could perhaps be a child node (though I noted there are also no 'food systems' terms, and this may be better placed under that, if it existed).