How to define Sustainable Development?

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How to define Sustainable Development?
1. It should satisfy the basic needs of the common man in a community, in a state, in a nation and world over.
2. It should be ecofriendly.
3. It should have gender prospective : Women should be at central point of development and not at back seat. Rohtak has male female ratio to be 1000/853 whereas that of Haryana is 1000/865. This type of development will always be a lopsided development .
4. Energy/Transportation/Communication/Health and Sanitation /Education/Nutrition/Shelter/Employment are the main areas of intervention.
5. It should clearly establish indicators of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
6. Ecoregions, ecoregional maps and regional development institutions should be developed.
7. Priority of development will have to be fixed : Safe drinking water is to be provided to all. Higher productivity per unit of land and water through ecotechnologies innovated by blending modern technologies and traditional know how is to be attained and agricultural production is to be doubled atleast.
8. Non farm livelihood security have to be improved through the adaptation of alternate technology based mass consumption such as ecofriendly building material and construction ,food processing ,renewable energy etc.
9. Sustainable technology and convergence among all ongoing programmes relating to environmental, social and economic development and to ensure integrated approach to planning ,financing and management.
10. Haphazard development is to be seriously discouraged.
11. New strategies for infrastructure in areas are required e.g.
a) Transportation
b) Education
c) Information Technology
d) Bio technology development
R.S.Dahiya
 
dahiyars said:
How to define Sustainable Development?
1. It should satisfy the basic needs of the common man in a community, in a state, in a nation and world over.
2. It should be ecofriendly.
3. It should have gender prospective : Women should be at central point of development and not at back seat. Rohtak has male female ratio to be 1000/853 whereas that of Haryana is 1000/865. This type of development will always be a lopsided development .
4. Energy/Transportation/Communication/Health and Sanitation /Education/Nutrition/Shelter/Employment are the main areas of intervention.
5. It should clearly establish indicators of environmental, social and economic sustainability.
6. Ecoregions, ecoregional maps and regional development institutions should be developed.
7. Priority of development will have to be fixed : Safe drinking water is to be provided to all. Higher productivity per unit of land and water through ecotechnologies innovated by blending modern technologies and traditional know how is to be attained and agricultural production is to be doubled atleast.
8. Non farm livelihood security have to be improved through the adaptation of alternate technology based mass consumption such as ecofriendly building material and construction ,food processing ,renewable energy etc.
9. Sustainable technology and convergence among all ongoing programmes relating to environmental, social and economic development and to ensure integrated approach to planning ,financing and management.
10. Haphazard development is to be seriously discouraged.
11. New strategies for infrastructure in areas are required e.g.
a) Transportation
b) Education
c) Information Technology
d) Bio technology development
R.S.Dahiya
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True sustainable development is when man does not interfere at all with anything in nature. This would amount to no development at all and would force the man to live peacefully with all other animals. My vision of a sustaiable development is;

1. Demolish everything manmade once for all.
2. Let all those who can not live under open sky or under the trees, die their natural death except treatment by natural means.
3. Let man walk every day to pick up his food and water from whereever he can get. This will keep us physically fit.
4. Derecognise all man made national boundaries.
5. Burn all records which tell who we are and where we come from.
6. Let man walk naked like he used to do

RK^2
 
Rk uncle, this is not development at all :), let alone sustainable :)...

the proper definition of sustainable development is to 'fulfill our needs today without compromising the future generations', this entails responsible use of resources, reducing negative footprint of our activities. This is the general philosophy or 'lens' through which any thinking/policy development/project planning and management could be seen by any agency- governemnt, companies, organizations...

Sustainable development was a termed coined at the earth summit, 1992, mainly in the environmental context but now it spreads across eocio-economic sphere too (as these are closely intertwined with the environment).

Lots of governments, corporations and organizations agree with the principles of sustainable development...lots has been done in this field...academically and practically...its the way where things are moving slowly...

rkumar said:
True sustainable development is when man does not interfere at all with anything in nature. This would amount to no development at all and would force the man to live peacefully with all other animals. My vision of a sustaiable development is;

1. Demolish everything manmade once for all.
2. Let all those who can not live under open sky or under the trees, die their natural death except treatment by natural means.
3. Let man walk every day to pick up his food and water from whereever he can get. This will keep us physically fit.
4. Derecognise all man made national boundaries.
5. Burn all records which tell who we are and where we come from.
6. Let man walk naked like he used to do

RK^2
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priti said:
Rk uncle, this is not development at all :), let alone sustainable :)...

the proper definition of sustainable development is to 'fulfill our needs today without compromising the future generations', this entails responsible use of resources, reducing negative footprint of our activities. This is the general philosophy or 'lens' through which any thinking/policy development/project planning and management could be seen by any agency- governemnt, companies, organizations...

Sustainable development was a termed coined at the earth summit, 1992, mainly in the environmental context but now it spreads across eocio-economic sphere too (as these are closely intertwined with the environment).

Lots of governments, corporations and organizations agree with the principles of sustainable development...lots has been done in this field...academically and practically...its the way where things are moving slowly...
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In my view most of present day human activities are not sustainable. Try to analyse human deeds and you will know that how wasteful animal the man is and how he is destrying Earth resources. In my own life we have depleted ground water and polluted almost every river. We are encouraged to buy things which we hardly need. Most men can not walk a mile today. I am almost 100% sure that if not during next 30 years, certainly during next 50 years we will have no options but to go back to our jungle life in some way. Earth simply can not sustain present day human activities. I have started questioning almost every human activity now as it leads to more trobles than it solves.

RK^2
 
devdahiya said:
Why only man.....? and Women......Ghaghari mein?
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Women always follow men....There won't be many tailors left anyway... only food gatherers, story tellers, singers, players and jokers...LOL Don't you think that would be the best way of living on Earth ?

RK^2
 
Dont know how helpful but an abstract from my draft thesis

[please do not cite without permission]

"The term ‘sustainable development’ gained widespread use in 1987 with the publication of the Brundtland Report, where the term was defined as, “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED, 1987). Initial focus of sustainable development was in the area of environmental studies (such as climate change) with a minimal focus on social impacts. It came to embrace socio – economic impacts with a philosophy of people, planet and profit.

The role of financial sector in promoting sustainability was discussed in the second Earth Summit at Johannesburg in 2002. In 2001, in a UNED briefing paper on sustainable finance, Gardiner (2001) emphasized that the current financial system has not attained the objectives of poverty eradication, social inequality, environmental sustainability and economic growth. The paper also stated that although financial markets profit from a certain degree of volatility, the markets do not take account of consequential impacts of crises and financial risk on poor communities and the environment, especially in developing countries.

Considering that these risks are significant, in an increasingly interconnected world, these could potentially pose a challenge to the sustainability of the financial markets themselves (Monks, 2002). On a micro level, SRI is considered a tool for achieving corporate sustainability, as an investment concept that focuses on companies that balance progress on social, environmental and economic fronts. It is based on a ‘triple bottom line’ approach which prescribes a balance of economic growth, environmental quality and social justice (Elkington, 1998). "
 
You are right in some of your observations such as wasteful activities...but we are turning around...and you will see that we will not have to turn back to jungle life :)...

I strongly believe that development and sustainability are not in conflict...these two things can go hand in hand...we just need to think on a different level...on an efficiency and economics level...on innovation...on substitution...with a life cycle approach...and a non-partisan approach.

With a life-cycle approach I mean solutions that do not create bi-impacts...this fits well with your approach of questioning everything...we think we know a lot but its not even the beginning...we need to combine our collective knowledge to create better balanced solutions...

rkumar said:
In my view most of present day human activities are not sustainable. Try to analyse human deeds and you will know that how wasteful animal the man is and how he is destrying Earth resources. In my own life we have depleted ground water and polluted almost every river. We are encouraged to buy things which we hardly need. Most men can not walk a mile today. I am almost 100% sure that if not during next 30 years, certainly during next 50 years we will have no options but to go back to our jungle life in some way. Earth simply can not sustain present day human activities. I have started questioning almost every human activity now as it leads to more trobles than it solves.

RK^2
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for sustainable developement or for that matter for anything good to happen the first pre-requisite is discipline.
Indian public and society have a very low standard of public discipline. They behave more like mob which is used by politicians ad religios leaders to their advantage.

We cant achieve anything without inculcating a sense of discipline. The disciplined societies in this world are the developed ones and not vice a versa.

Our discipline ends the moment we step out of our door.

For us, earning an extra 10Rs would take priority over any national or social issue.

Patriotism? For most, it means jumping in a cricket stadium. We promote products, religion, party politics,.. We dont have time to promote patriotism, a sense of belonging to India.

Patriotism? it is only for the soldier who is waiting for a bullet to hit his head.
 
Sustainable Development

Dear all

I n India we face the economic challenges thrown up by the process of interaction between democracy and economic development since her independence from British Rule in 1947. This is a fact that India is a poor country with abundant diversity in terms of religion, language, and ethnicity. The gradual maturing of Indian democracy has been a remarkable achievement almost unparalleled in political history. But this remarkable thing has also been fatally flawed by our unforgivable failure to deal in an effective manner with mass poverty and illiteracy and various forms of religious, social and gender discrimination. These problems are inter connected, irrespective of the fact that whether left or right these questions have to be answered by any model of development. It is in this reference that the question of Sustainable development in India should be referred to .Development with dignity is no Utopia. Let us debate and discuss.

R.S.Dahiya
 
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