Presentation on sustainable development and Historical Evolution

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
“1st International
Conference on global
biosphere
protection(UNESCO) ”
1972
Club of Rome Report
published “limits to
growth”
1972
“1st UN Conference on
Environment And
Sustainable
Development,Stockholm”
1980
“ World Conservation
Strategy (IUCN)
1987
“Brundtland
Commission: Our
Common Future”

4.  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. 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
needs.

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

9. Four Pillars

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