Sustainable
development is the regulatory and organizing principle for
achieving human development goals, while at the same time maintaining the capability of natural systems to provide ecosystem services
and natural resources on which the society and economy depend.
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Why
is Environmental Sustainability Important for development?
What
is Sustainable Development?
Sustainable
development is a term used over the last two decades to identify the needs to
reduce poverty through economic growth that preserves the health of the
ecosystem as well as the conservation of long-term stocks of natural resources.
Current
differences revolve around how to balance human needs with environmental
protection.
Concept of sustainable development
Development in its origin is the product of man's work to transform innate elements in the environment (structures and geological structures ...) into wealth, that is to goods and services corresponding to the needs of man.
This
conversion depends on the human effort and the scientific knowledge that he
uses and the technical tools he uses.
Development is a change in the environment
that threatens its innate balance, and reaches the degree of harm if the
ability of environmental instinct exceeds the probability and its ability to
restore balance and heal fractures.
Hence,
the importance of sustainable development as a new concept, and the desire of
some authors to make the concept of sustainable development more narrowly
defined, focusing on the material aspects of sustainable development.
Sustainable development is defined by a number of definitions, including:
1.
"Development that meets current requirements taking into account the
possibility of future generations to meet their requirements."
2."It
is the development that provides the present generation with its basic and
legitimate requirements, without compromising the ability of the natural
environment to prepare the next generation for their needs", in other
words, "the development response to the needs of the present, without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
3.
"Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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Economic
definition of sustainable development
Some
economic definitions of sustainable development focus on the optimal management
of natural resources, focusing on "maximizing the benefits of economic
development provided that natural resource services and quality are
maintained".
Other
definitions were based on the broad notion that "today's resource use
should not reduce real income in the future."
The
concept behind this is that current decisions should not harm or improve the
prospects for maintaining future standards of living, which means that our
economic systems should be managed so that we can live on the profits of our
resources and maintain and improve the material asset base.
Definition by the Commission on Sustainable
Development (CSD)
In
its report entitled "Our Common Future", the Commission concluded
that "there is a need for a new path of development, a path that sustains
human progress not only in a few places or for a few years, but for the entire
planet and into the distant future."
Sustainable
development, as defined by the Commission in 1987, seeks to "meet the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs".
The
basic objective of sustainable development is to meet human needs and achieve
long-term social welfare while maintaining the human and natural resource base
and trying to reduce environmental degradation. In order to achieve this, a
dynamic balance must be struck between economic and social development, on the
one hand, resource management and environmental protection on the other
hand.
Key
variables affecting sustainable development
The
status of technology in the definition of sustainable development:
Some
authors have also elaborated on the definition of sustainable development to
include the rapid transformation of the technological base of industrial
civilization and noted that new technology is needed that is cleaner, efficient
and able to save natural resources, so as to reduce pollution, help stabilize
the climate and absorb growth, in the population and in economic activity.
Human
status within the definitions of sustainable development:
Human
rights are at the center of the definitions of sustainable development, with
human development leading to improved health care, education and social welfare.
The
place of justice in the definition of sustainable development:
The
important element referred to by various definitions of sustainable development
is equity or justice.
There
are two kinds of equity: the fairness of the unborn generation of human beings,
whose interests are not taken into account in the development of economic
analysis and the savage market forces do not take account of these interests.
The
second equity concerns those living today who do not have equal access to
natural resources or social and economic "goods".
Since
the middle of the 1970s, the world has been under the absolute domination of
global financial capital, which perpetuates a striking disparity between the
countries of the South and the North, and perpetuates this disparity within the
same countries.
Sustainable
development must, therefore, take into account these two types of equity.
But
the realization of these two kinds of equity will not be achieved under the
absolute domination of global financial capital, but it is achieved under the
pressure of the forces of popular labor international can restore the balance
of global social relations.
The
relationship of sustainable development to the environment.
Since
ancient times, man has always worked on exploiting the natural resources of his
daily life and building his progress and civilization.
However,
his exploitation of these resources is done in random and wrong ways, which has
led to damage to the environment and imbalance.
On
this basis, the promotion of the environment not only by eliminating sources of
pollution but by working to develop resources and improve the use of these
resources.
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