The concept of Sustainable development explores the relationship among economic development, environmental quality, and social equity (Rogers, Jalal & Boyd, 2005). The terms of Sustainable development has been evolving since 1972, when the first international community determined the correlation between quality of life and environmental quality at the “United Nations Conference on the Human Environment” in Stockholm. Gladwin et al. (1995) had stated that it was hardly possible to require a suitable definition of Sustainable development that fits every side of study and it is too board that it means everything. They also foresaw that “the notion of sustainable development will remain fuzzy, elusive, contestable, and/or ideologically controversial
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In order to understand the reason why to derive a benefit, it is important to realise that the objectives and even the science of sustainability have become deeply politicised (O’Riordan, 2004). In 2009, Weale claimed that Governments are a major governance structure for sustainability: the only institutions with the authority to enable binding global treaties and the legitimacy to set policies within their own jurisdictions. Nationally, there have been certain basic factors for Sustainable development, including sound environmental, social and economic policies, and governmental frameworks responsive to the needs of the people, the rules of law, anti-corruption measures, gender equality and an enabling environment for investment. Besides, peace, security, stability and respects for human rights and fundamental freedoms, relating to the rights to development, together with respects for cultural diversity, are crucial for achieving Sustainable development’s goals and ensuring that Sustainable development benefits all (UN, 2002). There have been various definitions of the terms of Sustainable development. The concept of Sustainable development is associated to be resulted in the growing awareness of international connections between environmental problems and socio-economic economic issues to cope with poverty and inequality and concerns about a healthy future for humanity (Hopwood et al., 2005). In conclusion, Carley and Christie (2000) advise that sustainable development requires “adaptive management”, which concerns constant learning and adapting to feedbacks, due the only certainty is to change itself (“sailing” then, rather than “engine driving”) (Sterling,
In order to understand the reason why to derive a benefit, it is important to realise that the objectives and even the science of sustainability have become deeply politicised (O’Riordan, 2004). In 2009, Weale claimed that Governments are a major governance structure for sustainability: the only institutions with the authority to enable binding global treaties and the legitimacy to set policies within their own jurisdictions. Nationally, there have been certain basic factors for Sustainable development, including sound environmental, social and economic policies, and governmental frameworks responsive to the needs of the people, the rules of law, anti-corruption measures, gender equality and an enabling environment for investment. Besides, peace, security, stability and respects for human rights and fundamental freedoms, relating to the rights to development, together with respects for cultural diversity, are crucial for achieving Sustainable development’s goals and ensuring that Sustainable development benefits all (UN, 2002). There have been various definitions of the terms of Sustainable development. The concept of Sustainable development is associated to be resulted in the growing awareness of international connections between environmental problems and socio-economic economic issues to cope with poverty and inequality and concerns about a healthy future for humanity (Hopwood et al., 2005). In conclusion, Carley and Christie (2000) advise that sustainable development requires “adaptive management”, which concerns constant learning and adapting to feedbacks, due the only certainty is to change itself (“sailing” then, rather than “engine driving”) (Sterling,