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    MODULE 6 .

    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    Topic

    THE
    CONTEMPORARY
    WORLD
    LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

    *DETERMINE THE
    *DIFFERENTIATE *EVALUATE THE
    SIGNIFICANCE
    THE CONCEPT OF CONCEPT OF
    OF SUSTAINABLE
    STABILITY FROM SUSTAINABLE
    DEVELOPMENT
    SUSTAINABILITY; DEVELOPMENT
    IN A
    AND IN A SHRINKING
    GLOBALIZED
    WORLD.
    WORLD.
    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    • This term has acquired much popularity among
    scholars, politicians, public servants, and the civil
    population alike after the Brundtland Report by the
    World Commission on the Environment and
    Development (WCED) was presented in 1987.
    • As defined by Brundtland Report, it is that meets
    the needs of the present without compromising the
    ability of future generations to meet their own
    needs.
    CRITICAL OBJECTIVES FOR ENVIRONMENT AND
    DEVELOPMENT POLICIES (outlined by WCED)

    1 Reviving Growth

    5
    Conserving and
    enhancing the resource
    base
    Topic
    2
    Changing the
    quality of growth
    6 reorienting technology
    and managing risks

    3
    Meeting essential needs
    for job, food, energy,
    water, and sanitation

    7
    merging environment
    and economics in
    decision-making.

    4 Ensuring a sustainable
    level of population
    01 02
    Topic Topic
    ► it also advocates
    education to
    disseminate
    information regarding
    sustainable
    development.
    UK Strategy for Sustainable
    Development
    ► When the countries of the world met at the Rio Earth
    Summit in 1992, they agreed that all nations should adopt a
    national sustainable development strategy. The UK was one
    of the first nations to adopt the principles of the Earth
    Summit and Agenda 21, publishing its first UK Sustainable
    Development Strategy in January 1994, updated and
    republished in 1999 (A better quality of life: A strategy for
    sustainable development for the United Kingdom).
    UK Strategy for Sustainable
    Development
    ► aimed to raise the awareness of the people through the
    integration of environmental policies into all aspects of
    government, a shared responsibility between government, local
    authorities, businesses, and non governmentalorganizations
    among other provisions in the Strategy.
    UK Strategy for Sustainable
    Development
    ► Within the UK Sustainable Development Strategy, the
    Government has described sustainable development as
    having four key objectives. These include social progress
    and equality, environmental protection, conservation of
    natural resources and stable economic growth. These
    objectives reflect the concept of sustainable development
    and support the principles of Agenda 21.
    SUSTAINABILITY VS. STABILITY
    Sustainability Stability
    ❑A sustainable environment is ❑Stable environments are simply
    resilient enough to withstand man- resistant to change but somehow
    made and natural challenges, and lack the element of resiliency.
    can also recover from such if ❑Alone may not necessary lead to
    needs arise. stability
    ❑It leads to stability

    Sustainability may be likened to It is far easier for stable environments

    stability, however, there are few key to become unstable in comparison to

    and subtle differences between the possibility of sustainable

    the two. environments becoming


    unsustainable.
    WHAT MUST THE GOVERNMENT DO TO ACHIEVE
    SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT?

    1 2 3
    The policies and strategies The environment Governments, can simultaneously
    of the governments must must continuously be advocate protection, restoration,
    be intertwined with the center of and preservation of the integrity of
    environmental concerns government actions. the Earth’s ecological system by
    using ecological sustainability.
    Educating individuals about the importance
    and benefits of secure, balanced, and
    enduring ecosystems will make the
    implementation of environment-focused
    policies and plans much easier, and in the
    long term, will create a flourishing and
    stable environment for all.
    THANK YOU!
    THE
    CONTEMPORARY
    WORLD

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