As far as sustainable marketing is concerned, it is macro-marketing concept, which is defined as, “The
marketing within and supportive of sustainable economic development” (Dam and Apeldoorn, 1996). In
contrast to this, Belz and Peattie, in their book “Sustainability Marketing: A Global Perspective”, tried to
explain the thin line difference between sustainable and sustainability marketing. They explained that the
word sustainable is related to something durable or long lasting and, “Sustainable marketing is a kind of
marketing, which builds long lasting customer relationships effectively- without any particular reference
to sustainable development or consideration of sustainability issues.” Whereas, “sustainability marketing
is more explicitly relates to sustainable development agenda” and defined as the “building and
maintaining sustainable relationships with customers, the social environment and the natural
environment” (p.31). Therefore, the author has used sustainability marketing instead of sustainable
marketing because of the broader scope.