Sustainability, Resilience, Regeneration – What’s the Difference?

Sustainability postpones social, environmental and economic disasters in attempt to meet present economic growth while minimizing the impacts of current socioeconomic development for future generations.  Although sustainability is widely considered a positive concept, it has numerous weaknesses that make it unsustainable.  Resilience is disaster-recovery that focuses on the capacity to withstand and recover from shocks and stress, it prioritizing short-to medium-term responses and recovery of mainstream economic interests.  Regeneration is the ideal approach that involves restoring and revitalizing the “common good” in natural and social systems to address urgent needs, it fixing of the human causes that lead to disaster.