Concept of Sustainable Development

Presentation on sustainable development and Historical Evolution

1. MEGHA JAIN 1921321 MBA PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION & POLICY

2. Why Sustainable Develpoment? Over exploitation of Natural Resources The decline of more than 60% of the world’s marine fisheries. Scarcity Of Resources Nearly 2/3 of the world’s population will be living in water-scarce areas by 2025. Climate Change Extinction threat to small island nations due to climate change

3. HISTORICAL EVALUATION OF SD CONCEPT 1962 “Rachel Carson’s Book “Silent Spring”becomes the catalyst for moderne environmentalism” 1968 “1 st International Conference on global biosphere protection(UNESCO) ” 1972 Club of Rome Report published “limits to growth” 1972 “ 1 st UN Conference on Environment And Sustainable Development,Stockholm” 1980 “ World Conservation Strategy (IUCN) 1987 “Brundtland Commission: Our Common Future”

4. The Brundtland Report Gro Harlem Brundtland first introduced the concept of sustainable development in 1987. She was then the Prime Minister of Norway and chairman of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Term sustainable development was coined and popularized by the world commission on Environment and Development in its 1987 report entitled “ OUR COMMON FUTURE”

5. Objectives The critical objectives which the WCED pinpointed from the concept of Sustainable Development are : Changing the quality of growth Meeting essential needs for jobs, food, water, energy and sanitation Ensuring a sustainable level of population Conserving and enhancing the resource base Merging environment and economics in decision-making Re-orienting international economic relations Making development more participatory

6. The Brundtland Definition ( 1987) Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

7. Concept of Sustainable Development The concept of sustainability consist of two main keys concepts- The concept of 'needs,' in particular the essential needs of the world's  poor, to which  overriding priority should be given. The idea of limitations imposed by the state of technology and social  organization on the  environment's ability to meet present and future  need s.

8. These pillars are interdependent and mutually reinforcing (the united nations,2005 World Summit) Economic development Social development Environmental development The Pillars Of Sustainable Development

9. F our Pillars Economic Social Environment CULTURE

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