Question

Because local knowledge provides a framework for individual and community problem solving, not only on a day-to-day basis but also over the long term, it contributes to and informs _______________.

Answer 1

Because local knowledge provides a framework for individual and community problem solving, not only on a day-to-day basis but also over the long term, it contributes to and informs "sustainable development".

Sustainability is development that fulfills the necessities of the present without trading off the limit of who and what is to come, ensuring the harmony between financial development, care for nature and social prosperity.  

Sustainable development is an idea that showed up without precedent for 1987 with the production of the Brundtland Report, cautioning of the negative natural outcomes of financial development and globalization, which endeavored to discover conceivable answers for the issues caused by industrialization and populace development.