What is sustainable development?
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Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It contains within it two key concepts: the concept of "needs", in particular the essential needs of the world's poor, to which overriding priority should be given; and the idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social organization on the environment's ability to meet present and the future needs.
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Assuming we haven't found or developed other energy sources? The biggest energy-consuming societies fall apart, can't grow or transport food, most of their people starve. World population and technological levels fall to sustainable levels or, more likely, below.
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Do what you say, say what you think. \nIntegrity is the one most single quality to a sustainable business.
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that´s technology that doesn´t harm the environment in any sense. e.g. you don´t need to cut trees, or radioactive waves that coulkd disturb the way dolphins communicate.\na good example of eco friendly tehcnology is solar panels
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The Nature Conservancy and UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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» Environment - The complex of social and cultural conditions that affect an individual or community. In other words, the abiotic and biotic conditions that surround a living being.\n\n» Development - the process of changing and becoming larger, stronger, or more impressive, successful, or advanced, or of causing somebody or something to change in this way is development.\n\n¤ so, from here, we can see it clearly that, environment is what that surrounds us. and there can be development of those which surrounds us. for example, buildings are part of the environment,and there can be a development in the building that is there can be a development of one of the environment elements.\n so we should develop our environment in such a way that will be helpful for long term,not just for current generation but also for future generation. Our generation should develop the environment in extent that will be helpful for environment sustainability that is ability of a system to sustain longer,instead of getting simply some early profits.
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Sustainable development is 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs', according to Our Common Future, a 1987 report from the UN. One of the factors which sustainable development must overcome is environmental degradation.\n\nFor some, the issue is considered to be closely tied to economic growth and the need to find ways to expand the economy in the long term without using up natural capital for current growth at the cost of long term growth. For others, the concept of growth itself is problematic, as the resources of the Earth are finite.\n\nEnvironmental degradation\n\nEnvironmental degradation refers to the diminishment of a local ecosystem or the biosphere as a whole due to human activity. Environmental degradation occurs when nature's resources (such as trees, habitat, earth, water, air) are being consumed faster than nature can replenish them. An unsustainable situation occurs when natural capital (the sum total of nature's resources), is used up faster than it can be replenished. Sustainability requires that human activity, at a minimum, only uses nature's resources to the point where they can be replenished naturally:\n\n        * Human consumption of renewable resources > Nature's ability to replenish: Environmental degradation\n        * Human consumption of renewable resources = Nature's ability to replenish: Enviornmental equilibrium / sustainable growth.\n        * Human consumption of renewable resources < Nature's ability to replenish: Environmental renewal / also sustainable growth.\n\nThe long term final result of environmental degradation will be local environments that are no longer able to sustain human populations.
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Community or ecosystem.
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nope...resources are being consumed and very little left.no more space for more human species.its very hard to live since poverty is present in any sides of the world now.miserable lives arec waiting for 95% of the newborns....just think about the world situation
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The answer to studing ecology was worded the simplest by Kofi Annan. "There is little chance of protecting the environment without a greater sense of mutual responsibility." \nThe world in which is made up ofdelicate and complicated systems, which need to be understood by everyone on one level or another. While it would seem some of it to be trivial, an informed public insures a healthier planet.
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Please refer to :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalisation\nYou'll find enough answers !
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Economic development doesnt preclude, infact it may very soon require, technological forrays into alternative energy production.  A current trend in the commercial sector is that consumers and investors are favoring environmentally friendly corporations.  Therefore, by the economic law of supply and demand, those corporations that avoid environmentally deleterious policies, such as relying on crude oil, will prosper, since they are 'supplying' environmental responsibility, for which demand is currently soaring.  It is shortsightedly immature of us to not move off crude oil quicker, infact.  We underestimate the damage oil does to the health of the worldwide human population, in terms of military repurcussions, adverse health effects, and of course, the environmental consequences.
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environment is the conditions or surroundings whithin which some one or something lives or exists.
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Beyond Bureaucracy:\nThe Development Agenda\nMaking it to the 21st Century\ndepends on the participation of everyone \nand the re-creation of our major institutions\nan Interview with David C. Korten, by Alan AtKisson\nOne of the articles in Making It Happen (IC#28)\nSpring 1991, Page 26\nCopyright (c)1991, 1996 by Context Institute | To order this issue ...\n\n\nIf your interest is in "making it happen" - participating in the transformation of our societies to a more humane and sustainable way of life - there is one book you simply must read: David Korten's Getting to the 21st Century: Voluntary Action and the Global Agenda. The distillation of nearly three decades of research and field experience, Korten's book is both tightly focused (on the primacy of non-governmental organizations and voluntary action in creating a better world) and expansive (his analysis weaves together such diverse elements as the environment, global economy, governance institutions, and the transformation of consciousness).\n\nBut while Korten's agenda is radical in the truest sense, his roots are decidedly mainstream - M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business; faculty positions at Harvard, the Asian Institute of Management, and other institutions; on staff at the Ford Foundation; and consultant to the US Agency for International Development [AID]. And his message - despite its challenge to the legitimacy of some of the world's most entrenched bureaucracies - is being heard.\n\nKorten is now Founder and President of the People-Centered Development Forum, "a voluntary organization ... to encourage and support the definition and pursuit of a people-centered development vision as a global citizens' movement." We are pleased to announce that he is also the newest contributing editor to IN CONTEXT. In this lengthy and wide-ranging interview, he traces the development of his thinking and sketches out the critical elements of an action agenda for getting to the 21st Century. His book is available from Kumarian Press, 630 Oakwood Ave., Suite 119, West Hartford, CT 06110 ($19.95 postpaid).\n\nAlan: Development has, in the West at least, been considered too big for anyone but government to tackle. But in your book, you argue persuasively that such thinking is inherently flawed - and that, in fact, it leads to disaster.\n\nDavid: Right. We have to think of development as a people's movement, not as a government-funded project. Development issues relate to values and relationships - which you cannot buy with government funding.\n\nThat's a trap we've gotten into - we think government can correct these things for us. But we cannot expect our "leaders" - in quotes - to provide the necessary leadership. What we see now demonstrated is quite the opposite - our current leadership is taking us very skillfully and powerfully in exactly the wrong direction with great intent.\n\nAlan: How did you come to these conclusions, and move from large institutional settings such as USAID to developing something like the People-Centered Development Forum? What was the evolutionary pathway?\n\nDavid: My start in the international development business was actually in business management and management education. The shift began when I was the academic director of INCAE, the Central American management institute. We were studying the family planning programs of El Salvador and Nicaragua, and one of the critical influences on my thinking was seeing how the structures of those systems thwarted any effort to both generate client demand and be responsive to it. The nature of bureaucratic organizations made such responsiveness impossible.\n\nSo, once back in the US, I began working with people from Third World management institutes and the heads of national family planning programs in a major effort to improve management in these programs. Some of us reached the conclusion that one of the important f
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The earth when young was a nice place to live,\nTill man came along, and made the world give,\nNow the land is being polluted, And the air too,\nLets learn to recycle, and keep the earth new.
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I think you mean Rural developement.Farming,Architecture,education and community planning for growth are good areas to start.Many rural communities have livestock.Good Luck:)
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Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and planning and acting for the ability to maintain these ideals indefinitely. Sustainability affects every level of organization, from the local neighborhood to the entire planet.