“可持续发展”是当代世界在面临能源短缺、生态破坏和环境恶化等重重危机之下，重新审视人与自然的关系而提出的一种新的环境价值观和生存发展理念。其概念简单地讲就是一既满足当代人的需要，又对满足后代人需要不构成危害的发展”。这个思想由世界环境发展委员会（WECD）198 “Sustainable development” is a new kind of environmental values ​​and concept of survival and development put forward by the contemporary world under the heavy crisis of energy shortage, ecological destruction and environmental degradation, and by reexamining the relationship between man and nature. The concept is simply a development that meets the needs of the present while not jeopardizing the needs of future generations. "The idea was developed by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WECD) 198