Sustainable development

all the while, their actions and thoughts are anything but sustainable. The general population is still trying to figure out this word, sustainability. Does it mean ‘eco-friendly’? Does it mean ‘more expensive’? What is this expensive, ‘hippie ideology’ and what does it have to do with development? The term ‘sustainable development’ was coined a couple decades ago famously by the Brundtland Commission. They defined sustainable development by marrying together the three areas of environment,…

1.1. Sustainable Development The idea of energy efficient, healthy buildings has been around for a long time, it is now that the concept of “green” or “sustainable” building has entered the mainstream and catching the global attention. There are probably several reasons; Global Warming, rising energy costs, the growing awareness, declining oil reserves, and concerns about our limited water supply. The list goes on, but whatever the reason or reasons; energy efficient building is a concept whose…

One of the UK’s international development programmes for countries like Kenya is to tackle extreme poverty sustainably. High levels of corruption and impunity by our leaders has constrained Kenya’s potential to develop rapidly and bridge the existing economic gap. In 2014, for instance, Transparency International ranked Kenya at number 145 out of 175 on the Corruption Perception Index. The main areas that need urgent reviewing to steer the economy of my country in the right direction are proper…

All of this is possible through sustainable development. The standard definition of sustainable development is economic development without exhausting natural resources, but there is much more to it than that. With this economic growth comes the elimination of underprivileged areas and pollution. It also provides help to those who desperately need it and change their lives forever. Even with all the benefits that come with the funding of sustainable development, there is always an opposing…

Sustainable development, being defined as “ development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’ (Brundtland,1987:43) is being increasingly recognised by the global society. One of this can be seen from the fact that sustainable development was included in the Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) of the United Nations as one of the explicit goals (MDG7) among the eight goals. This can show that the national government…

Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the goals that created by the United Nation (UN) in order to develop the member states by achieving all of those goals. There are a lot of countries in the world that still have many challenges and problems that prevent them from becoming the developed countries. The newest sustainable development goals were released by UN in September 2015. The newest version of Sustainable Development goals consists of 17 goals which were…

cultures that they create and the development that is caused by the evolution of those societies. Thus it should be important for anthropologists to study the many development projects that are proposed by organizations around the world. The concept of development projects first began after World War II as the West began trying to piece Europe back together. After the Marshal Plan was signed in 1948 the United States then turned to creating projects to aid in the development of third world…

As the aforesaid, the current development approach failed to solve human suffering or poverty, as well as fulfill commitment of improving people life (Eversole, Mcneish, & Cimadamore, 2005), and indigenous knowledge-based development approach seems to provide more fruitful in a sustainable ways. Sustainable development in Buddhist perspective in P. A. Payutto point of views is a “sustainable development must emphasize on human development as core” that consists of three aspects, such as…

economic development is one of the most successful achievements in human history，both in developing countries and developed countries. Countless people are sharing the improvement of living standard in many aspects. However, with the threat posed by the increasing environmental problems and resource shortage problems, considerable amount of public attention is being attracted to the achievement of sustainable development. According to Wikipedia , “ sustainable development is the Development…

remainder of the Earth’s essential resources it could mean their extinction. The most important and influential solution to such a problem is the pursuit and engineering of sustainable development technologies. According to an article on the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s website, “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (IISD, 2016). This means that in order…